English Dictionary

masquerade

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌmæskəˈɹeɪd/

名詞

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An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.

日本語の意味

仮面舞踏会：様々な人々が（通常は装飾的または奇抜な）仮面と衣装を着用し、ダンスや会話などで楽しむ集いやパーティー / 仮装パーティー：特に衣装やマスクを用いた祭り的な催し

She arrived at the masquerade wearing a gilded mask and a velvet cape, ready to dance until dawn.

彼女は金色の仮面とビロードのマントを身に着けて仮面舞踏会に到着し、夜明けまで踊る準備をしていた。

意味（1）

An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.

I was invited to the masquerade party at their home.

意味（2）

The act of wearing a mask or dressing up in a costume for, or as if for, a masquerade ball.

意味（3）

(figuratively) An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display.

Verres in the youth of Cicero, Catiline and Clodius in his middle age, Mark Antony in his old age, have all been left to operate on the modern reader's feelings precisely through that masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome.

意味（4）

(figuratively) An assembly of varied, often fanciful, things.

意味（5）

(fandom slang) A cosplay event at which costumed attendees perform skits.

意味（6）

(obsolete) A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask or masque.

意味（7）

(obsolete, rare) A Spanish entertainment or military exercise in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes.

masquerades （ plural ）