mask
/mæsk/ noun B2- A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. · a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask
- That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
- Appearance, likeness.
- A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
- A person wearing a mask.
- A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
- In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
- A screen for a battery.
Plural masks
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This was one of his parts in the popular comedy he was performing,—a make-up he had adopted and which suited him about as well as the masks worn on the classic stage by paternal actors, who seen from one side, were the image of geniality, and from the other showed lips drawn down in chronic ill-temper.
## The Fox and the Mask
A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.
Being naturally great mimics of men’s actions, they showed themselves most apt pupils, and when arrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any of the courtiers.
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