I. noun
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a masquerade ball
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Am I not your mistress in masquerade ... Trader?
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And this can not be achieved by enacting and responding to any general masquerade of fixed roles.
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Dressing up, role playing and masquerade form the conceptual basis of Kahlo's work.
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Most attempts of this sort were charades, performances in masquerade .
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Similarly, the puerile masquerade of seventies non-swearing was worth watching because it was deliciously nonsensical.
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Time trapped one in a masquerade with costumes of its own choice.
II. verb
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By masquerading as poisonous insects, they avoid attacks from birds that might otherwise eat them.
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The play is more an act of self-immolation masquerading as rational justification.
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Advertisers masquerading as private individuals will be liable to prosecution.
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They often masqueraded as potential customers in order to get information.
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But these wave-chroniclers, these Xenophons of the surf, often went about masquerading as prophets.
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There is a class of words known as epithets which are really nouns plus adjectives masquerading as pure nouns.
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The virus masquerades as a picture of Anna Kournikova, the tennis star.
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Certainly censorship should not be allowed to masquerade as virtuous compromise, but nor should commitment to free speech go unexamined.
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Certainly censorship should not be allowed to masquerade as virtuous compromise, but nor should commitment to free speech go unexamined.
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John F.. Kerry Wednesday described the governor as an enemy of higher education masquerading as an election-year friend.
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Maybe writer / director Michael Mann thought he was creating an existential male menopause movie masquerading as a cops-and-robbers drama.
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No reality, he wrote, only images masquerading as reality, only dreams masquerading as the real world.
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The play is more an act of self-immolation masquerading as rational justification.
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They often masqueraded as potential customers in order to get information.