Masquerade
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"All this sentimental masquerading and exaggerated gallantry suggests the vulnerable side of the Hotel de Rambouillet, and the side which its enemies have been disposed to make very prominent. Among those who tried to imitate this salon, Spanish chivalry doubtless degenerated into a thousand absurdities, and it must be admitted that the salon itself was not free from reproach on this point. It became the fashion to write and talk in the language of hyperbole. Sighing lovers were consumed with artificial fires, and ready to die with affected languors. Like the old poets of Provence, whose spirit they caught and whose phrases they repeated, they were dying of love they did not feel. The eyes of Phyllis extinguished the sun. The very nightingales expired of jealousy, after hearing the voice of Angelique."--The Women of the French Salons (1891) by Amelia Gere Mason |
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- A party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
- In courtly balls and midnight masquerades - Alexander Pope
- A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See “mask”
- Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
- I was invited to the masquerade at their home.
- That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome - Thomas de Quincey
- A Spanish diversion on horseback.
See also
- Mascarade à la Grecque
- Masquerade ball, a costumed dance event
