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- verb Present participle of
masque .
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Examples
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Right now, because of my masquing, my face is becoming very taut and tight and the mask is hardening.
"We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races." Ann Althouse 2009
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He dipped his pen in ink and wrote, "In farces, in masquing, and in other prodigalities, fain would the fools have counterfeited France."
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Mary had combined the masquing and elegance of a Shrovetide ball in France with the grandeur of a wedding feast.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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"Although the Kirk frowns on frivolous music, on dancing and masquing, good honest songs from our people are to be treasured."
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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I have stood in the presence of Satan's minion, masquing it as a young boy; but his mockery revealed him to me.
Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 1987
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Mary had combined the masquing and elegance of a Shrovetide ball in France with the grandeur of a wedding feast.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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"Although the Kirk frowns on frivolous music, on dancing and masquing, good honest songs from our people are to be treasured."
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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He dipped his pen in ink and wrote, "In farces, in masquing, and in other prodigalities, fain would the fools have counterfeited France."
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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The masquing scene in _Henry VIII. _, as described by Holinshed, perhaps furnishes a clue to the Queen's pleasantry, though Shakspeare has omitted the particular incident relating to Sir Henry Nevill.
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MUMMING, in a masquing pied suit, with a vizard; his torch-bearer carrying the box, and ringing it.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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