Sentence examples for to masque from inspiring English sources
noun
(in 16th-17th Century England & Europe) A dramatic performance, often performed at court as a royal entertainment, consisting of dancing, dialogue, pantomime and song.
Besides those works of Purcell that are nearer to masque than drama, such as the Shakespeare adaptations for The Fairy Queen (1692) and The Tempest (1695), he composed suites of incidental music for more than 40 plays.
According to Masque, "We partnered with an elite group of flavor experts who perfected a revolutionary formula that blocks the salt, bitter, and protein flavors (those most associated with fellatio) from the palate for up to fifteen minutes".
To Masque's credit I suppose it worked, the mango flavor certainly distracted from the taste of the come, but personally I much prefer the taste of my boyfriend.
For a perfect consonance between setting and subject, one has only to look to The Masque of Anarchy, Maxine Peake's sensational performance of Shelley's outraged poetic response to the Peterloo Massacre.
Anyway, it's times like this that I find myself thinking about how it's too bad Edgar Allan Poe isn't around to write a sequel to The Masque Of The Red Death, you know?
Sadly, the magazine pays 10 times more attention to nail masques than to life-saving smear tests.
He also painted the exhibition gallery blood red in homage to "The Masque of the Red Death" and moved display cases close together to invoke the claustrophobia of "The Premature Burial".
"Surely an allusion to 'The Masque of the Red Death'!
Woodman had a tarot reading for $250, was wowed by a street magician, and got sold a plainly dodgy ticket to a masque ball.
Prior to The Masque of the Red Death, BAC had operated two studio spaces, plus a few offices dotted about the place in the building.
So after a couple of years of being locked in the rehearsal space, after one of our practices, Greg Ginn and I went up to the Masque in LA, the bastion of punk rock, and cornered one of my heroes, Brendan Mullen.
