Guising

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks. historical

    "[I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: sincere sport they were[.]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of guise form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"[I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: sincere sport they were[.]"

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