1 (formal) a way of behaving that hides the truth or a person's true feelings:
He was tired of the masquerade and wanted the truth to come out.
2 (especially AmE) a type of party where people wear special COSTUMES and MASKS over their faces, to hide their identities
verb [V] ~ as sth to pretend to be sth that you are not:
commercial advertisers masquerading as private individuals * The local paper is full of gossip masquerading as news.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, masquerade is tagged as noun.
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