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A masque was a kind of show at the English court in the 1500s and 1600s. It mixed music, dancing, songs, rich clothes, and often a thin story full of gods and symbols. Kings and queens sometimes danced in them. Famous writers and stage designers made them for palace rooms, not for ordinary town theatres. It is not just any play. And though actually the actors often wore masks, a masque is not the mask on your face — that everyday thing is mask. People keep this older French-looking spelling when they mean that special court show. You will meet the word in history, literature, or theatre class, almost never in daily talk.
組成Taken as it is from French masque. It is a doublet of English mask and also of mesh: the same older root, different paths into English.
同家族的字
- maskdoublet: same older word, now the usual English form for the thing on your face
- meshdoublet: same older root, now a net-like material
- masqueradea later party or pretence from the same ‘mask’ family
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
masquenoun/mæsk/
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historicalA dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
- "I think," said Anne to Madame de Mercœur, "we must obtain your protégée's services for our intended masque; however, I shall leave that to you young people to settle," turning to Louis as she spoke.
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Words and music written for a masque.
- Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition.
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A masquerade.
- The game of pretence is enhanced by dressing-up, and it is natural for a child to copy some grown-up hero. The game was also played by all those people who have attended masques and fancy-dress parties and by Marie-Antoinette when she played at being a milkmaid, it is only the fashion which had altered.
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A facial mask.
- mud masque; clay masque
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。