# masque
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French masque.

### Pronunciation

* (General American, UK) IPA: /mæsk/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɑːsk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æsk, -ɑːsk
* Homophones: mask, masc (some accents)

### Noun

masque (plural masques)
* (historical, in 16th- and 17th-century England and Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 221:"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.
** 2010 April 9, Glyn Maxwell, “WH Auden's ‘The Age of Anxiety’”, in The Guardian‎: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.
** 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 184: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 altered.
* Obsolete form of mask.
* A facial mask.
    mud masque; clay masque

### Verb

masque (third-person singular simple present masques, present participle masquing, simple past and past participle masqued)
* Archaic form of mask.
** 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.:It is even masqued by that sort of good-humoured air that at heart he resents his impressment.

### Further reading

* masque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* squame

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian maschera. More at English mask.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mask/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

masque m (plural masques)
* mask (a cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection)
* Short for masque de grossesse.

#### Derived terms

* bas les masques
* masque à gaz
* masque à oxygène
* masque-cheval
* masque chirurgical
* masque de grossesse
* masque de plongée
* masque de nuit

#### Related terms

* démasquer
* masquer

#### Descendants

* → Czech: maska
* → Danish: maske
* → English: masque
* → German: Maske
** → Hungarian: maszk
* → Hunsrik: Mask
* → Macedonian: маска (maska)
* → Mongolian: маск (mask)
* → Norwegian: maske
* → Persian: ماسک (mâsk)
* → Polish: maska
* → Romanian: mască
* → Russian: маска (maska)
** → Armenian: մասկա (maska)
** → Georgian: მასკა (masḳa)
** → Kazakh: маска (maska)
* → Serbo-Croatian: maska / маска
* → Swedish: mask
* → Turkish: maske

### Verb

masque
* inflection of masquer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “masque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Verb

masque
* inflection of mascar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Middle French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian maschera.

### Noun

masque m (plural masques)
* mask (covering for the face)

#### Descendants

* French: masque (see there for further descendants)
* → English: mask

### References

* ↑ Etymology and history of “masque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Verb

masque
* inflection of mascar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

masque
* inflection of mascar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative