guising
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
guising
- present participle and gerund of guise
Noun[edit]
guising (plural guisings)
- (historical) A festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- [I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: since sport they were[.]