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English
Etymology
From im- + mask.
Verb
immask (third-person singular simple present immasks, present participle immasking, simple past and past participle immasked)
- (obsolete) To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :immaske our noted outward garments
1806, Andrew Becket, Socrates (poem):The thick, dark mists of hell
Which envelop gaunt envy and hate
Thus immask'd, and in seeming security
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