guising

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noun

A festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks.

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Meanings

verb

alternative guizing

  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of guise
nounguising (plural guisings)

plural guisings · alternative guizing

  1. historicalA festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks.

    [I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: sincere sport they were[.]

    1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 9, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 47
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