Guise

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 [rhymes with size]

Noun

1. a false appearance: in the guise of a wood-cutter

2. general appearance or form: haricot beans are best known in Britain in their popular guise of baked beans [Old French]

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

2. pretence, show, mask, disguise, face, front, aspect, façade, semblance

Translations

guise [gaɪz] n in or under the guise of → bajo la apariencia de

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guise [gaɪz] n → aspect m, apparence f

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guise [gaɪz] n in or under the guise of → in der Form +gen, in Gestalt +gen

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guise [gaɪz] n → maschera

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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 valepuku apparence, déguisement מַסווֶה वेष, बाह्य रूप krinka látszat penyamaran gervi maschera, vestito 身なり 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