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Guise

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Guise  (gz), Second Duke. Title of François de Lorraine. 1519-1563.
French general and politician who suppressed the Huguenots.

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.

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.

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

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]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Guiseguise - an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
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"

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 guisede esa manera
under the guise of (= disguised as) → bajo el disfraz de (fig) → con el pretexto de

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

guise
n (= disguise)Gestalt f; (= pretence)Vorwand m; in the guise of a clownals Clown verkleidet; under the guise of friendship/scientific researchunter dem Deckmantel der Freundschaft/der wissenschaftlichen Forschung; under the guise of doing somethingunter dem Vorwand, etw zu tun

guise [gaɪz] nmaschera, parvenza
guise [gaɪz] nmaschera, parvenza

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


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He has gone from the guddee and put on the shroud, And departed in guise of bairagi avowed!
I spoke to her of power and pride, But mystically - in such guise That she might deem it nought beside The moment's converse; in her eyes I read, perhaps too carelessly - A mingled feeling with my own - The flush on her bright cheek, to me Seem'd to become a queenly throne Too well that I should let it be Light in the wilderness alone.
In his guise of a French gentleman of leisure, Werper found little difficulty in deceiving his host and in ingratiating himself with both Tarzan and Jane Clayton; but the longer he remained the less hopeful he became of an easy accomplishment of his designs.
 
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