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antimask

noun

Etymology

From anti- + mask.

  1. derived from *maskā✻
  2. derived from masca
  3. derived from maschera — “mask, disguise”
  4. borrowed from masque — “a covering to hide or protect the face”
  5. prefixed as antimask — “anti + mask”

Definitions

  1. Obsolete form of antimasque.

  2. Opposing masks.

    • Hassler stated that the Board of Health was not going to be influenced by antimask activists. But making a law is one thing, and enforcing it is something else.
    • Some southern towns and cities made efforts to limit the activities of the Ku Klux Klan with the passage of antimask laws.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antimask. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA