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Guise  (gz), Second Duke. Title of François de Lorraine. 1519-1563.

French general and politician who suppressed the Huguenots.

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Guise, Third Duke. Title of Henri de Lorraine. 1550-1588.

French military leader who helped plan the massacre of Huguenots on Saint Bartholomew's Day, 1572. His designs on the throne led to his assassination by order of Henry III.

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guise  (gz)

n.

1. Outward appearance or aspect; semblance.

2. False appearance; pretense: spoke to me under the guise of friendship.

3. Mode of dress; garb: huddled on the street in the guise of beggars.

4. Obsolete Custom; habit.

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[Middle English, manner, fashion, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]

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guise [gaɪz]

n

1. semblance or pretence under the guise of friendship

2. external appearance in general

3. (Clothing & Fashion) Archaic manner or style of dress

4. Obsolete customary behaviour or manner

vb

1. Dialect to disguise or be disguised in fancy dress

2. (tr) Archaic to dress or dress up

[from Old French guise, of Germanic origin; see wise²]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

guise - an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" pretence, pretext, pretense semblance, gloss, color, colour - an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"

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guise

noun

1. form, appearance, dress, fashion, shape, aspect, mode, semblance He claimed the Devil had appeared to him in the guise of a goat.

2. pretence, show, mask, disguise, face, front, aspect, façade, semblance Fascism is on the rise under the guise of conservative politics.

Translations

guise [gaɪz] N in that guise → de esa manera
under the guise of (= disguised as) → bajo el disfraz de (fig) → con el pretexto de

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guise [ˈgaɪz] n → aspect m, apparence f
in the guise of → sous l'apparence de
in a different guise → sous une autre apparence

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guise

n (= disguise) → Gestalt f; (= pretence) → Vorwand m; in the guise of a clown → als Clown verkleidet; under the guise of friendship/scientific research → unter dem Deckmantel der Freundschaft/der wissenschaftlichen Forschung; under the guise of doing something → unter dem Vorwand, etw zu tun

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guise [gaɪz] n → maschera, parvenza

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guise

n guise [gaiz]

a disguised or false appearance The thieves entered the house in the guise of workmen. kleding, masker, onder die skyn van على هَيْئَة، تحت قناع маскировка přestrojení forklædning die Aufmachung μεταμφίεση apariencia, forma, aspecto maskeering ظاهر فریبنده puku apparence, déguisement מַסווֶה वेष, बाह्य रूप krinka látszat penyamaran gervi maschera, vestito 身なり 겉치레, 가장 persirengimas maska; maskēšanās; izlikšanās samaran vermomming forkledning, dekke, maske przebranie disfarce aparenţă, deghizare обличие preoblečenie preobleka prerušavanje sken, mask, förklädnad ลักษณะภายนอก aldatıcı görünüş 偽裝 обманливий вигляд; маска بھیس ، بہروپ chiêu bài 伪装