immask
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Etymology edit
Verb edit
immask (third-person singular simple present immasks, present participle immasking, simple past and past participle immasked)
- (obsolete) To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- immaske our noted outward garments
- 1806, Andrew Becket, Socrates (poem):
- The thick, dark mists of hell
Which envelop gaunt envy and hate
Thus immask'd, and in seeming security
References edit
- “immask”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.