Mask
A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.
That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
A screen for a battery.
The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
To disguise; to cover; to hide.
To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.
To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
A person wearing a mask; a masker.
The head or face of a fox.
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Mask Quotations
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Khalil Gibran
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Rodney Dangerfield
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Benito Mussolini
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
Erich Fromm
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
Mike Tyson
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
Victoria Abril
Mask Translations
mask in Afrikaans is masker
mask in Dutch is bemantelen, bewimpelen, maskeren
mask in Finnish is naamari
mask in French is masque
mask in German is abdecken, Maske, Maske
mask in Italian is maschera
mask in Swedish is maskera, mask
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