guise

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as in costume
clothing chosen as appropriate for a specific situation she felt as though she should be wearing some sort of Germanic guise, complete with dirndl, for the fall festival featuring traditional German food and drink

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as in mask
clothing put on to hide one's true identity or imitate someone or something else he sneaked into the castle to rescue Ivanhoe in the guise of a priest coming to give Ivanhoe his last rites

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Examples of guise in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Nadia, the Russian mail-order bride of Jez Butterworth’s 2001 film Birthday Girl, bounces unnervingly among multiple guises: seducer, charlatan, love interest. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024 Too often what makes it to our screens, even in the high-gloss guise of prestige programming, isn’t a triumph of intelligent, boundary-exploding storytelling. Judy Berman, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024 Older audiences, however, will certainly respect what everyone is trying to do here, especially admirers of Coogan in his more pensive guises. Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024 Baldwin gives us the tools already prepared to analyze [not only] whiteness in its many shifting guises, but also capitalism and imperialism. Michael Cuby, Them, 1 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for guise 

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“Guise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guise. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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