immask

verb

immask

verb

Etymology From im- + mask.

1

Obsolete To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal.

  • immaske our noted outward garmentsc. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
  • The thick, dark mists of hell Which envelop gaunt envy and hate Thus immask'd, and in seeming security1806, Andrew Becket, Socrates (poem):

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