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guizing

guizing is the alternative form of guising.

Meaning of guising

Noun

guising (plural guisings)

  1. (historical) A festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks.
    • [I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: sincere sport they were[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 9, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 47

Questions about guizing

What is guizing the alternative form of?
Guizing is the alternative form of guising.

Words near guizing in the dictionary

  1. guizards
  2. Guizars
  3. guizer
  4. guizers
  5. Guizhou
  6. guizing
  7. Guizo
  8. Guj
  9. Gujar
  10. Gujarat
  11. Gujarati

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