Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of disguising; a disguise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Disguise.
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- noun
disguise (deceptive appearance)
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Examples
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For as for the natural magic whereof now there is mention in books, containing certain credulous and superstitious conceits and observations of sympathies and antipathies, and hidden proprieties, and some frivolous experiments, strange rather by disguisement than in themselves, it is as far differing in truth of
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The lama stared through his spectacles as he had not stared at the business of disguisement.
Kim 2003
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But one night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home, and robbed them all of everything.
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No disguisement of natural form is attempted; and a man's appearance is judged of at its true value.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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What could have been his reason for this temporary disguisement I have never been able to discover.
Byeways in Palestine James Finn
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Accordingly, he could not find in his heart to behave inexorably to the graceful sinner; he entered into conversation, and learned from her the project of a singular disguisement, wherewith it was intended to surprise the Countess.
Chapter X. Book III 1917
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The curate recounted in brief, reasons of Don Quixotes madness, and how that disguisement was requisite to bring him away from the mountain wherein at that present he made his abode.
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The lama stared through his spectacles as he had not stared at the business of disguisement.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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When he came to the disguisement and the interview with the girl in the bazar, Mahbub Ali's gravity went from him.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Whether they were struck with awe by the unaccustomed majesty of my appearance in brand-new wig, bands, &c., in which I am fresh as a daisy, and fine as a carrot fresh scraped, or whether they simply did not recognise me in the disguisement of such toggeries, I am not to decide -- but they passed by without responding visibly to my salutations.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895
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