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"Costume party"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (MASQUERADE).
Definitions
making a false outward show
Word origin
The noun is borrowed from Middle French mascarade, masquarade, masquerade (modern French mascarade (“masquerade, masque; farce”)), and its etymon Italian mascherata (“masquerade”), from maschera (“mask”) + -ata. Maschera is derived from Medieval Latin masca (“mask”): see further there. The English word is cognate with Late Latin masquarata, Portuguese mascarada, Spanish mascarada.
Used in a sentence
“I was invited to the masquerade party at their home.”
“I’m going to masquerade as an old-fashioned pilot. What are you going to dress up as?”
“There was a Freak took an Aſs in the Head, to Scoure abroad on the Ramble; and away he goes into the Woods, Maſquerading up and down in a Lyon's Skin.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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