masque

Example Sentences

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The actual transformation occurs in Jonson’s subsequent masque.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

I also got a hydrating, collagen-boosting facial, an herbal hair steam and a conditioning hair masque.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

The spirit trumpet is one of a number of arcane and intriguing objects in Linder’s exhibition, which is titled The House of Fame, in tribute to a Ben Jonson masque and Chaucer’s dream poem.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2018

This fall, there was another seventeenth-century masque playing in London, John Milton’s “Comus: A Masque in Honour of Chastity,” at the Globe’s candlelit indoor playhouse.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2016

Years ago, her grandfather had taken her to see a masque in Bridgetown, in which a troupe of players from England had acted out the ancient Christmas story.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare