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What does masquerade mean?

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Noun
  1. A party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
  2. (fandom slang) A cosplay event at which costumed attendees perform skits on a stage.
  3. (obsolete) A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See “mask
  4. Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
  5. (archaic) A Spanish entertainment in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
  2. (intransitive) To frolic or disport in disguise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
  3. (transitive) To conceal with masks; to disguise.
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