A form of amateur dramatic entertainment, popular among the nobility in 16th- and 17th-century england, which consisted of dancing and acting performed by masked players.
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Dancing plays a part in the staged entertainments or masques which occur within several plays.
noun
Variant spelling of mask (sense 3 of the noun).
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Adding a treatment masque to your cleansing routine works wonders
noun
A covering for all or part of the face, worn as a disguise, or to amuse or frighten others.
A covering made of fibre or gauze and fitting over the nose and mouth to protect against air pollutants, or made of sterile gauze and worn to prevent infection of the wearer or (in surgery) of the patient.
A piece of material such as card used to cover a part of an image that is not required when exposing a print.
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A patterned metal film used in the manufacture of microcircuits to allow selective modification of the underlying material.
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The enlarged labium of a dragonfly larva, which can be extended to seize prey.
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A type of theatre entertainment including poetry, singing, and dancing, performed in england in the 16th and 17th centuries, especially at a royal court (= the official home of a king or queen)
mid 16th century: from French masque, from Italian maschera, mascara, probably from medieval Latin masca ‘witch, spectre’, but influenced by Arabic masḵara ‘buffoon’.
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Any of 28 small oblong pieces marked with 0–6 pips in each half.
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Everyone will fall over like a row of dominoes
noun
One of a set of small rectangular pieces of wood or plastic marked with a particular number of spots on each half of one surface, used in playing a game
A covering for all or part of the face, worn as a disguise, or to amuse or frighten others.
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Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and f…
noun
A covering worn over the mouth and nose in order to reduce the transmission of infectious agents, or to prevent the inhalation of pollutants and other harmful substances.
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Wear a protective mask, covering nose and mouth, to decrease the percentage of polluted air breathed.
A piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face.
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A white bridal veil
verb
A membrane which is attached to the immature fruiting body of some toadstools and ruptures in the course of development, either ( universal veil ) enclosing the whole fruiting body or ( partial veil ) joining the edges of the cap to the stalk.
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A piece of thin material worn to protect or hide the face or head
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The bride wore a veil made of french lace., fig. a veil of secrecy surrounded the appointment of th…