单词 | dismask |
释义 | † disˈmask, v. Obs. [ad. obs. F. desmasquer ‘to vnmaske, discouer, pull, or take off his maske’ (Cotgr.), f. des-, dis- 4 + masque mask.] trans. To divest of a mask or covering; to unmask.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 296 Faire Ladies maskt, are Roses in their bud: Dismaskt..Are Angels vailing clouds, or Roses blowne. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 184 Their plausible pretences being now dismasked. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. (1821) 1 To dismaske themselves of that cloake of subjection which before they pretended. 1651Walton in Reliq. Wotton (1672) 213 The Marquess..thought best to dismask his Beard. |

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