▪ I. disguising, vbl. n.
(dɪsˈgaɪzɪŋ)
[f. disguise v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb disguise. † a. Change of fashion of clothes; strange or fantastic dressing.
| 1395 Lollard Conclus. Art. xii. in J. Lewis Life Wyclif (1820) 342 Duodecima Conclusio, quod multitudo artium in nostro regno nutrit multum peccatum in waste, curiositate, et inter disguising. c 1400 Jacob's Well 79 Ȝif dysgysing, or excesse of clothys..be þerin..þanne is þat desyre of praysing & delyȝt in þe clothys & rycches dedly synne. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 62 Noyis flode..stroied the world for the pride and the disguysinge that was amonge women. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxvi. (1482) 233 They..chaunged hem euery yere dyuerse shappes and disguysyng of clothyng. |
b. The assumption of a disguise.
| 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. ii. vi. 37 Ile giue her father notice Of their disguising and pretended flight. |
c. The giving of a false appearance or representation; concealing.
| 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 13 His going to N. to be but a meere disguising his intent. 1587 Golding De Mornay xxii. (1617) 359 Disguisings of the truth. |
2. concr. † a. Strange or new-fangled dress. Obs.
| c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶351 The wrecched swollen membres that they shewe thurgh the degisynge in departynge of hire hoses in whit and reed. c 1485 Digby Myst. v. 150 These do signyfie Your disgysyng And your Araye. |
b. Dress or covering worn to conceal identity.
| 1485 Act 1 Hen. VII, c. 7 The said Mis-doers, by reason of their painted Faces, Visors, and other Disguisings could not be known. 1581 Lambarde Eiren. iv. iv. (1588) 419. |
† 3. A mask, or masquerade; an acting by ‘disguisers’ or guisers. Obs.
| 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 389 All suche stoffe..that he bowgt for the Dysgysing. 1530 Tindale Pract. Prelates Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 339 The Frenchmen..of late days made a play, or a disguising at Paris, in which the emperor danced with the pope. 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 13 Iustes, tourneis..or other marcial feates or disguisings. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 893/2 This Christmasse was a goodlie disguising plaied at Graies In. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 77/2 King Cassibelane..gave..many Disguisings, Plays, Minstrelsie and sports. 1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. ii. 145 Magnificent pageants and disguisings. |
† 4. An alleged appellation for a ‘company’ of tailors. Obs.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj b, A Disgysyng of Taylours. |
▪ II. disˈguising, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That disguises.
| 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. v. (1634) 534 margin, The disguising ceremonies which the Church of Rome useth in making of her Priests. 1741 tr. D'Argens' Chinese Lett. xxxiii. 250 The European Women besmear their Faces with White and Red, and upon that disguising Paint they stick abundance of little Plaisters of black Taffata. |