The meaning of MASQUERADE is a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes. How to use masquerade in a sentence.
Masquerade balls were a feature of the Carnival season in the 15th century, and involved increasingly elaborate allegorical Royal Entries, pageants, and triumphal processions celebrating marriages and other dynastic events of late medieval court life.
masquerade noun (PARTY) (also masquerade ball, masquerade party) 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):
Verb masquerade (third-person singular simple present masquerades, present participle masquerading, simple past and past participle masqueraded) (intransitive) To take part in a masquerade; to assemble in masks and costumes; (loosely) to wear a disguise.
- a festive gathering of people wearing masks and costumes. 2. a costume worn at such a gathering. 3. false outward show; pretense. 4. to represent oneself falsely. 5. to disguise oneself. 6. to take part in a masquerade. mas`quer ad′er, n.