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  • noun Plural form of masquerader.

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Examples

  • For the species known as masqueraders, it is not easy to accept that this is where we have reached.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News Sheila Rampersad 2010

  • Limmende wanted them to split up and be gone, staying only long enough to destroy "masqueraders".

    A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

  • Last of all, a fat and formidable edition of Robert Browning's poems; a tiny black domino-mask, such as masqueraders wear, and a shimmering gilt picture frame inclosing a pert yet not irreverent handmade adaptation of a certain portion of St. Paul's epistle to the Corinthians:

    Molly Make-Believe Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • Carnival Tuesday is the day that the masqueraders dress in full costume, congregate with their band, and play mas with wild abandon in front of thousands of spectators in the stands.

    Teri Johnson: It's Time For Trinidad Carnival For 2012 Teri Johnson 2011

  • Carnival Tuesday is the day that the masqueraders dress in full costume, congregate with their band, and play mas with wild abandon in front of thousands of spectators in the stands.

    Teri Johnson: It's Time For Trinidad Carnival For 2012 Teri Johnson 2011

  • Several masqueraders and goths squealed and shrank back from the commotion.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Several masqueraders and goths squealed and shrank back from the commotion.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • It may be great fodder for historians, future political strategists or Republican masqueraders seeking to sow dissention among Democrats .... but few others are interested.

    Clinton advisor blames strategy disagreements, money for loss 2008

  • Several masqueraders and goths squealed and shrank back from the commotion.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • So, what did these masqueraders do that was so different from the Streaker who got into the Academy Awards or any other famed gate crasher of recent memory?

    Michael Russnow: The Frenzy About White House Gatecrashers: Did the Media Overreact? 2009

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