Masque is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MASQUE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a dramatic entertainment formerly popular in England
• a form of amateur dramatic entertainment, popular among the nobility in 16th- and 17th-century England, which consisted of dancing and acting performed by masked players.
• A mask; a masquerade.
• a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
• 16th–17th-century form of dramatic entertainment
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• 16th–17th-century form of dramatic entertainment

Words related to MASQUE

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Words that contain MASQUE

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How to use MASQUE in a sentence

• A young lady visiting in the city had promised him a dance at the Valentine masque to be held at the Country Club-house Friday night.
• A dance which derived its name from being performed at that point in a masque when new actors appeared.
• In form it is a masque, like those gorgeous products of the Elizabethan age of which Ben Jonson was the master.
• The masque, a form of dramatic representation, borrowed from the Italian, had been introduced into England during the reign of Elizabeth.
• With her perfect masque and queenly figure, and earnest, upward gaze, she might have been the very model from which Raphael conceived his glorious St.
• But Milton was a Courtier when he wrote the Masque at Ludlow Castle, and still more a Courtier when he composed the Arcades.
• The exhibition witnessed by Chowles and Judith was a rehearsal of the masque intended to be represented in the cathedral on the following night.
• In masque, elegy, and sonnet he set the seal to the Elizabethan poetry, said the last word, and closed one great literary era.
• This seemingly trivial conversation was a turning point, and twelve months later Rita Dresden was playing the title role in The Maid of the Masque.
• She was to winter beneath real Southern palms and to possess a cruising yacht, not one of boards and canvas like that which figured in The Maid of the Masque.
• On the marriage of the Earl of Somerset, the Venetian was invited to the masque, but not the dinner, as last year the reverse had occurred.
• Behind the spread grey masque of apparent death lay stores of accumulated life, ready to break forth at any point.
• The Triumph of Peace, a Masque, presented before the King and Queen at Whitehall, 1633, by the Gentlemen of the Four Inns of Court.
• A Masque, presented at Bretbie in Derbyshire, on Twelfth-Night 1639.
• He hurriedly explained to the others that Pocahontas was evidently intending to do them special honour in welcoming them with some kind of sylvan masque.
• He was also author of a masque called Orpheus and Euridice.
• Lord Landsdowne likewise wrote a Masque, called Peleus and Thetis.
• He was in garrison at Barcelona, and coming from a ball one night, in company with some ladies, a man in a masque, whom he did not know, was guilty of some rudeness to him.
• Know that in this grotesque old masque Too loud we cannot sing, Or dance too wild, or speak too wide To praise a hidden thing.
• In the introduction of allegorical characters Browne was probably influenced by Spenser, and in a lesser degree by the masque literature of his day and by the study of Langland.
• The connexion of the pastoral with the masque began very early, and may well have been more constant than we should be tempted to suppose from the isolated examples that remain.
• Although the mythological element is everywhere prominent, the pastoral is comparatively of rare occurrence in the regular masque literature of the seventeenth century.
• The piece possesses a certain interest from the fact of its forming, in a stricter sense than any of the other pieces we have examined, a link between the drama and the masque.
• A brief analysis will serve to reveal the lines upon which the piece is constructed, and to show how far it follows the traditions respectively of the drama and the masque.
• It is no more a regular play than it is a strict masque, but a dramatic composition containing elements of both in almost equal proportions.
• She wore a masque and veil tight wrapped about her head.
• He was carried forth with the party in search and now came toward the opening in the passage with drawn sword, his face wearing the masque of bravery.
• He was the form, grace and elegance of his Royal Highness and kept his masque securely tied.
• He wore no masque this time and boldly entered the inn to refresh himself and prepare for a visit to the castle.
• Masque of Poets McLeod, Norman Mill, John Stuart Milton, John Mohammed Moore, Thomas Motley, J.

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