Word Meaning

Meaning of "masquerade" and the crossword clue

- Pretence or disguise
- An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
- A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
- Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
- A Spanish diversion on horseback.
- To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
- To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
- To conceal with masks; to disguise.