Masques is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MASQUES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• MASQUE, 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.

Words related to MASQUES

masque17

Words that contain MASQUES

antimasques22

How to use MASQUES in a sentence

• After ceasing his work for the stage, Jonson wrote many masques in honor of James I and of Queen Anne, to be played amid elaborate scenery by the gentlemen of the court.
• During the reign of James, the passion for masques kindled into a mania.
• To the Laureate and to this period belongs the credit of introducing scenery, hitherto restricted to court masques, into the machinery of the ordinary drama.
• In going there we went some distance along the quay, which was filled with carriages and pedestrians, among whom were many masques and fancy dresses of the most grotesque kind.
• The master and assistant-master of Pastimes were humming merrily on at their masques and triumphs, when, the King expired.
• But Florence had always been liberal, nay, lavish, of her genius in triumphs, masques, magnificent street architecture, evoked to celebrate some ephemeral event.
• But these were employed only in masques at court, and were too expensive for the little theatres in which plays were then acted.
• Pastoral in the masques and slighter dramatic compositions II.
• Masques and General Influence I The history of the English masque offers a very interesting study in what may be called literary morphology.
• As in all the regular masques of the Jonsonian type the characters and situations exist solely for the opportunities they afford for dance and song.
• A few slight pieces by the quondam actor Robert Cox, partaking more or less of the character of masques, possess a certain pastoral colouring.
• The points in which it resembles the regular spectacular masques, as well as those in which it differs from them, will be alike evident from the analysis given above.
• The scene, the song and the measure, these form, indeed, the very stuff that masques are made of.
• He invites him, as I am given to understand, to all his masques, banquets, and revels at York House, and even condescends to flatter him.
• Morals, interludes, and masques were gradually brought upon the scene.
• Still the masques were to be distinguished from the ordinary entertainments of the public playhouses.
• Evelyn, not caring much for such entertainments, seems, nevertheless, to have frequently attended the plays and masques of the Court.
• The chroniclers have given us many accounts of the masques and plays which were acted in the court, or in the castles of the noblemen.
• The contrast is striking when we turn to the masques, the triumphs, and the pageants which were exhibited on great occasions by the court or by the citizens of London.

Similar words containing MASQUE without suffix s

masque17 masquer18 masquers19 antimasque21 masquerade22 antimasques22 masqueraded24 masquerader23 masquerades23 masqueraders24 masquerading25

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