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masque

noun as in masked ball

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In nearby San Francisco, moviegoers packed sold-out theaters “en masse and also en masque,” as the San Francisco Chronicle put it.

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Masque of the Red Death was the second-to-last Poe film I made.

V.S. Naipaul's new book, The Masque of Africa, has not been well received by critics.

No doubt this was due to the nature of the media in which he mainly worked, the masque and the 138 song-book.

The lovely "nocturne" of the evening plain had passed into a Vision or Masque of Force that captured the mind.

It is needless to add, that they were young ladies habited as peasants, and that there was a masque at the chateau.

He made his Masque what it ought to be, essentially lyrical, and dramatic only in semblance.

This dance or “masque proper,” often elaborated into several measures, came near the end of the show.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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