guising

English

Alternative forms

• guizing

Verb

guising

1. present participle and gerund of guise

Noun

guising (plural guisings)

1. (historical) A festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 9, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 47:

     [I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: sincere sport they were[.]

Related terms

• guiser

Tagalog

Adjective

guisíng (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)

1. Obsolete spelling of gising.

Noun

guising (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)

1. Obsolete spelling of gising.