disguisement
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One is the Spanish mantilla; that plain black scarf which forms the sweetest disguisement a woman can put on: by its simplicity, and its obvious utility, it claims our approbation at the first glance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
God has taken such care that he need take none; none, that is, which consists in disguisement, insincerity, painful hushing-up of his true, grand, initiating nature.
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Anne Burrows Gilchrist
In the case of Numa this is related as a fact, but it is only a disguisement of the right derived from the ritual books.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
No disguisement of natural form is attempted; and a man's appearance is judged of at its true value.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
What could have been his reason for this temporary disguisement I have never been able to discover.
From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn
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