Usually means: Dramatic performance combining poetry, music.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. masque: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. masque: Merriam-Webster
  3. masque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. masque: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. masque: Collins English Dictionary
  6. masque: Vocabulary.com
  7. Masque, masque: Wordnik
  8. masque: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. masque: Wiktionary
  10. masque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. masque (mask): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. masque: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Masque, masque: Dictionary.com
  14. masque: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Masque: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. masque: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. masque: Rhymezone
  19. Masque, masque (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. masque: FreeDictionary.org
  21. masque: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. masque: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. masque: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. masque: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. masque: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (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.
noun:  Words and music written for a masque.
noun:  A masquerade.
noun:  A facial mask.
noun:  Obsolete form of mask. [A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.]
verb:  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.]

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