masking
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
masking
- present participle and gerund of mask
Noun[edit]
masking (countable and uncountable, plural maskings)
- The act by which something is masked; the act of masking, of concealing or disguising.
- 2017, Robert D. Denham, Northrop Frye and Others: The Order of Words, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN:
- “To function effectively in any social situation,” writes Booth, “we all engage in masking of one kind or another: we do some prettying up: we adorn, […] "
- 2017, Eddie S. Glaude, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, NY: Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 61:
- African Americans, particularly those who have to work and live in predominantly white spaces, also engage in masking.
- An entertainment at which the guests conceal their faces with masks.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 280–281:
- The vassals or tenants collected in the hall for Christmas masking and mumming—the peasant gathering that May-day called out upon the green, drew together ranks whose distance, in our day, occasions forgetfulness on one side, and discontent on the other.
- 1984, John Norman, Players of Gor:
- Such things, maskings, and disguisings, and dressing up, sometimes in incredible and wild fashions, are all part of the fun of carnival.
- The practice of wearing safety masks, such as face masks.
- 2020 November 20, Tom McCarthy, “Republican officials finally forced into action on Covid-19 as reality bites”, in The Guardian[1]:
- For millions of American lives touched by the coronavirus, it was too late to correct the failure to stand up protocols for masking and social distancing, testing and contact-tracing. But negative consequences of the culture war around the pandemic could still lie ahead, damaging the national vaccination effort.