disguise
/dɪsˈɡaɪz/ noun B2- Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another. · A cape and moustache completed his disguise.· hiding one's treacherous intentions under the guise of friendship
- The appearance of something on the outside which masks what’s beneath. · old ideas in a new guise
- The act or state of disguising, notably as a ploy. · Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
Plural disguises
From the library
He owns it himself without disguise.”
But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.
Perhaps this concealment, this disguise, was beneath me.
Had you not been really amiable you would have hated me for it: but in spite of the pains you took to disguise yourself, your feelings were always noble and just; and in your heart you thoroughly despised the persons who so assiduously courted you.
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