antimasquer

plural antimasquers · alternative antimasker

1. One who takes part in an antimasque.

   Next came a still more popular part—the antimasquers or comic and satirical part.

   1859, David Masson, The Life of John Milton

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   The dauncers, masquers, antimasquers, and musicians did befor hand practice in the place where they were to present the masque, and the sceanes were artfully prepared (by Inigo Jones) att the lower end of the banquetting house, and all things were in readyness.

   1790, “Manners o fthe Time of Charles the First displayed in an Account of a Musical Mask”, in The New Annual Register, page 166

   But Sabrina is no antimasquer. Instead, she introduces this alternative mode of signification into the masque proper, where she becomes moreover a necessary ally in the reunification of the aristocratic family.

   1999, Nancy Weitz, Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

   This downward metamorphosis serves to justify the low place of the antimasquers in the social scheme and to underscore how limited their social contribution must be.

   2012, Gail Kern Paster, The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare, page 133