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Sounds like mask, masc (some accents) · Rhymes with -æsk, -ɑːsk

Unadapted borrowing from French masque. Doublet of mask and mesh.

historical A 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.
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.
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 alte
obsolete Obsolete spelling of mask.mask
A facial mask. mud masque; clay masque

archaic Archaic spelling of mask.mask It is even masqued by that sort of good-humoured air that at heart he resents his impressment.