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antemask

antemask is the obsolete form of antimasque.

Meaning of antimasque

Noun

antimasque (plural antimasques)

  1. A comic or grotesque dance presented before or between the acts of a masque.

Forms of antemask

pluralantemasks

Questions about antemask

What is antemask the obsolete form of?
Antemask is the obsolete form of antimasque.

Words near antemask in the dictionary

  1. antelopish
  2. antelucan
  3. antem
  4. antemarginal
  5. antemarital
  6. antemask
  7. antemasks
  8. antemasque
  9. antemasques
  10. antemedial
  11. antemedian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antemask (page history and authors); antimasque (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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