disguiser
disguiser noun: a person or thing that disguises.
Noun
disguiser (plural disguisers)
- A person or thing that disguises.
- A voice disguiser alters a person’s voice to protect their anonymity.
- Incense can be used as an odour disguiser.
- A person who wears a disguise; an actor in a masque or masquerade; a masker.
- […] out of a caue in the said Rock came .x. knightes, armed at all poyntes, & faughte together a fayre tournay. And when they were seuered & departed the disguysers dissended from the rock & daunced a great space: & sodeynly the rocke moued & receaued the disguysers, & ymediatly closed agayn.1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke (also known as Hall’s Chronicle), London: Richard Grafton, “The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the VIII,”
- Browning’s poems of the love of man and woman are seldom a simple lyrical cry, but they are not on this account the less true in their presentment of that curious masquer and disguiser—Love. When love takes possession of a nature which is complex, affluents and tributaries from many and various...1904, Edward Dowden, chapter 4, in Robert Browning, London: J.M. Dent, page 76
Examples of disguiser in a sentence
- O, death’s a great disguiser; and you may add to it.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]...
- If there were no alcohol or cigars, would not those who now use either to excess have recourse to some other form of stimulant or fatigue and pain disguiser instead?1899, Robert Grant, “To A Young Man or Woman in Search of the Ideal”, in Search-Light Letters, New York: Scribner, Letter II, pp. 29-30:
- But on the clearest facts of history he is a dissembler and disguiser.2010 September 16, Garry Wills, “Stealing Newman”, in The New York Review:
- Browning’s poems of the love of man and woman are seldom a simple lyrical cry, but they are not on this account the less true in their presentment of that curious masquer and disguiser—Love.1904, Edward Dowden, chapter 4, in Robert Browning, London: J.M. Dent, page 76:
Forms of disguiser
| plural | disguisers |
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Origin of disguiser
From disguise + -er.
Words that rhyme with disguiser
Questions about disguiser
- What does disguiser mean?
- Disguiser means a person or thing that disguises.
- How do you use disguiser in a sentence?
- O, death’s a great disguiser; and you may add to it.
- What part of speech is disguiser?
- Disguiser is a noun.
- What is the plural of disguiser?
- The plural of disguiser is disguisers.
Words near disguiser in the dictionary
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