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disguiser

noun

Etymology

From disguise + -er.

  1. derived from dis-
  2. derived from desguiser
  3. inherited from disgisen
  4. suffixed as disguiser — “disguise + er”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • O, death’s a great disguiser; and you may add to it. Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his death

  2. A person who wears a disguise

    A person who wears a disguise; an actor in a masque or masquerade; a masker.

    • A kind of witty complicity emerges occasionally from Jonson’s treatment of his disguisers, to suggest that he was taken with their arts in spite of himself.

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