masquerade

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.

   “I was invited to the masquerade party at their home.”

2. isim The act of wearing a mask or dressing up in a costume for, or as if for, a masquerade ball.
3. isim An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display.

   “Verres in the youth of Cicero, Catiline and Clodius in his middle age, Mark Antony in his old age, have all been left to operate on the modern reader's feelings precisely through that masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome.”

4. isim An assembly of varied, often fanciful, things.
5. isim A cosplay event at which costumed attendees perform skits.
6. isim A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask or masque.
7. isim A Spanish entertainment or military exercise in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes.
8. fiil To take part in a masquerade; to assemble in masks and costumes; (loosely) to wear a disguise.

   “I’m going to masquerade as an old-fashioned pilot. What are you going to dress up as?”

9. fiil To pass oneself off as a different person or a person with qualities that one does not possess; also, to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.

   “He masqueraded as my friend until the truth finally came out.”

10. fiil To conceal (someone) with, or as if with, a mask; to disguise.