Masqueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unadapted borrowing from French masque. Doublet of mask and mesh.

発音

• (General American, 英国発音) IPA: /mæsk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɑːsk/
• 韻: -æsk, -ɑːsk
• 異形同音異義語: mask, masc (some accents)

名詞

masque (plural masques)

1. (historical, in 16th- and 17th-century England and Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 221:

     "I think," said Anne to Madame de Mercœur, "we must obtain your protégée's services for our intended masque; however, I shall leave that to you young people to settle," turning to Louis as she spoke.

2. Words and music written for a masque.
   • 2010 April 9, Glyn Maxwell, “WH Auden's ‘The Age of Anxiety’”, in The Guardian‎:

     Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition.

3. A masquerade.
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 184:

     The game of pretence is enhanced by dressing-up, and it is natural for a child to copy some grown-up hero. The game was also played by all those people who have attended masques and fancy-dress parties and by Marie-Antoinette when she played at being a milkmaid, it is only the fashion which had altered.

4. Obsolete spelling of mask.
5. A facial mask.

   mud masque; clay masque

派生語

動詞

masque (third-person singular simple present masques, present participle masquing, simple past and past participle masqued)

1. Archaic spelling of mask.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.:

     It is even masqued by that sort of good-humoured air that at heart he resents his impressment.

派生語

Further reading

• masque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• squame