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masque

See also: masqué

English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French masque.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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masque (plural masques)

  1. (historical, in 16th- and 17th-century England and Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 221:
      "I think," said Anne to Madame de Mercœur, "we must obtain your protégée's services for our intended masque; however, I shall leave that to you young people to settle," turning to Louis as she spoke.
  2. Words and music written for a masque.
    • 2010 April 9, Glyn Maxwell, “WH Auden's ‘The Age of Anxiety’”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition.
  3. A masquerade.
  4. Obsolete form of mask.
  5. A facial mask.
    mud masque; clay masque

Verb

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masque (third-person singular simple present masques, present participle masquing, simple past and past participle masqued)

  1. Archaic form of mask.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd‎[2], London: Constable & Co.:
      It is even masqued by that sort of good-humoured air that at heart he resents his impressment.

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Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian maschera. More at English mask.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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masque m (plural masques)

  1. mask (a cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection)
  2. Short for masque de grossesse.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Verb

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masque

  1. inflection of masquer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Galician

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Verb

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masque

  1. inflection of mascar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Middle French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian maschera.[1]

Noun

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masque m (plural masques)

  1. mask (covering for the face)

Descendants

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  • French: masque (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: mask

References

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  1. ^ Etymology and history of “masque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

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Verb

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masque

  1. inflection of mascar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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masque

  1. inflection of mascar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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