guising
English
Noun
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
- [I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: since sport they were[.]
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
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