masque

IPA: mæsk

(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.
Words and music written for a masque.
A masquerade.
A facial mask.
Archaic form of mask. [A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.]

Archaic form of mask. [(transitive) To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.]

Examples of "masque" in Sentences

The masque is a combo of a fancy mud and "deeply nourishing" body cream.
Hmm, I don't think Prada Beauty makes a seaweed and cucumber "masque"...
'It was I that called the masque at my house where first the King did see her.
England (unless _Comus_ be called a masque), and which are worth comparing with the ballets and spectacle pieces of Molière.
In form it is a masque, that is, a dramatic poem intended to be staged to the accompaniment of music; in execution it is the most perfect of all such poems inspired by the
As a ballad and a subversive "masque," however, it is a scandal to literary form and decorum in its analysis of oppression and its attribution of Promethean virtue to the hungry, the homeless, and the despised.
The history of the masque is a stale matter, so I will merely mention that Campion, and many another with, before, and after him, engaged during a great part of their lives in what can only be called the manufacture of these entertainments.