Какво означава masquerade на английски?

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masquerade Значение & определение

0 behaviour that is intended to prevent the truth about something unpleasant or not wanted from becoming known:
- They kept up the masquerade of being happily married for over 30 years.
1 a party or dance where people wear masks (= coverings over part or all of the face) or other disguises (= clothes that hide who you are or make you look like someone else):
- When she agrees to accompany him to a masquerade, she does not know who exactly she is dancing with.
- The convention finished with a masquerade ball.
2 a party or dance in which people wear masks (= coverings for the face):
- There were dozens of masquerade balls, parades, street dances, and fancy dress parties.
- I’m afraid we will not have a fair election but another masquerade.
3 to pretend or appear to be:
- In this business, there are a lot of unqualified people masquerading as experts.

She encountered a famous poet, dressed as a monk, at a masquerade in London.
An entire gallery is devoted to photographs of the masquerade ball held in the Winter Palace in February 1903.
I have accepted an invitation for us to attend a masquerade ball given by friends of Lord and Lady Matlock.
They throw a big masquerade party that includes handing out animal masks to the children.
According to Luis Buñuel, Dalí and Gala went to a masquerade party in Chicago dressed as the Lindbergh baby and the kidnapper.
It would be a world containing demons masquerading as cats.
At the masquerade, the eight men run into the ballroom at the stroke of midnight and scare the gathered revelers.
Here, it is the masquerade that allows flexibility and freedom of manoeuvre.