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English
Etymology
From disguise + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
disguiser (plural disguisers)
- A person or thing that disguises.
A voice disguiser alters a person’s voice to protect their anonymity.
Incense can be used as an odour disguiser.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :O, death’s a great disguiser; and you may add to it. Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his death
- 1696, Robert Howard, The Blind Lady Act V, Scene 3, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 124,
- I should be friends
- With this disguise, could it but hide my crimes:
- But night it self that great disguiser,
- Wants power to conceal the least of crimes
- From any troubled breast
1899, Robert Grant, “To A Young Man or Woman in Search of the Ideal”, in Search-Light Letters, New York: Scribner, Letter II, pp. 29-30:If there were no alcohol or cigars, would not those who now use either to excess have recourse to some other form of stimulant or fatigue and pain disguiser instead?
2010 September 16, Garry Wills, “Stealing Newman”, in The New York Review:Benedict was once a scholar and now claims to be infallible in matters of faith or morals. But on the clearest facts of history he is a dissembler and disguiser.
- (archaic, historical) A person who wears a disguise; an actor in a masque or masquerade; a masker.
- 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre Yorke (also known as Hall’s Chronicle), London: Richard Grafton, “The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the VIII,”
- out of a caue in the said Rock came .x. knightes, armed at all poyntes, & faughte together a fayre tournay. And when they were seuered & departed the disguysers dissended from the rock & daunced a great space: & sodeynly the rocke moued & receaued the disguysers, & ymediatly closed agayn.
1904, Edward Dowden, chapter 4, in Robert Browning, London: J.M. Dent, page 76:Browning’s poems of the love of man and woman are seldom a simple lyrical cry, but they are not on this account the less true in their presentment of that curious masquer and disguiser—Love. When love takes possession of a nature which is complex, affluents and tributaries from many and various faculties run into the main stream.
1987, Thomas M. Greene, “Ben Jonson and the Centered Self”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Modern Critical Views: Ben Jonson, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, page 100:A kind of witty complicity emerges occasionally from Jonson’s treatment of his disguisers, to suggest that he was taken with their arts in spite of himself.