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antemasque

antemasque 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 antemasque

pluralantemasques

Questions about antemasque

What is antemasque the obsolete form of?
Antemasque is the obsolete form of antimasque.

Words near antemasque in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antemasque (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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