EMEDD Citations for "masque"

Ian Lancashire
University of Toronto

for the Shakespeare Association of America
San Francisco 1999

  1. masque (French entry by Randle Cotgrave 1611)

    Masque: m. A maske; a visor. masque de Caresme entrant. The picture of Shroue-tewsday; a guts, gulch, gorbellie, fat chuffe, or chops. Lever le masque a. To vnmaske; to publish, or lay open a thing which was closely couered, or carried.

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