make semblant

verb

make semblant

verb

1

Obsolete To appear (to do something); to make a show of.

Than toke he hys swerde agayne and put hit up in hys sheethe, and made a crosse in hys forehede, and cam to the lyons. And they made sembelaunte to do hym harme.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:

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