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guise    Audio Help   [gahyz] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, guised, guis·ing.
–noun
1.general external appearance; aspect; semblance: an old principle in a new guise.
2.assumed appearance or mere semblance: under the guise of friendship.
3.style of dress: in the guise of a shepherd.
4.Archaic. manner; mode.
–verb (used with object)
5.to dress; attire: children guised as cowboys.
–verb (used without object)
6.Scot. and North England. to appear or go in disguise.

[Origin: 1175–1225; (n.) ME g(u)ise < OF < Gmc; see wise2: (v.) ME gisen, deriv. of the n.]

1. form, shape. See appearance.
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Guise    Audio Help   [geez] Pronunciation Key
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1.Fran·çois de Lor·raine    Audio Help   [frahn-swa duh law-ren] Pronunciation Key, 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
2.his son, Hen·ri I de Lorraine    Audio Help   [ahn-ree] Pronunciation Key, Duc de, 1550–88, French general and leader of opposition to the Huguenots.
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guise    Audio Help   (gīz)  Pronunciation Key 
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.]

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Guise    Audio Help   (gēz)  Pronunciation Key 
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 
c.1275, from O.Fr. guise, from Frank. *wisa (cf. O.H.G. wisa "manner, wise").

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guise

noun
an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" 

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guise [gaiz] noun
a disguised or false appearance
Example: The thieves entered the house in the guise of workmen.
Arabic: على هَيْئَة، تحت قناع
Chinese (Simplified): 伪装
Chinese (Traditional): 偽裝
Czech: přestrojení
Danish: forklædning
Estonian: maskeering
Finnish: valepuku
French: apparence, déguisement
German: die Aufmachung
Greek: μεταμφίεση
Hungarian: látszat
Icelandic: gervi
Indonesian: penyamaran
Italian: maschera, vestito
Japanese: 身なり
Korean: 가장
Latvian: maska; maskēšanās; izlikšanās
Lithuanian: persirengimas
Norwegian: forkledning, dekke, maske
Polish: przebranie
Portuguese (Brazil): falsa aparência, disfarce
Portuguese (Portugal): disfarce
Romanian: aparenţă, deghizare
Russian: обличие
Slovak: preoblečenie
Slovenian: preobleka
Spanish: apariencia, forma, aspecto
Swedish: sken, mask, förklädnad
Turkish: aldatıcı görünüş
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Guise

Dis*guise"\ (?; 232), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disguised; p. pr. & vb. n. Disguising.] [OE. desguisen, disgisen, degisen, OF. desguisier, F. d['e]guiser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + guise. See Guise.]

1. To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.

Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner. --Macaulay.

2. To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.

All God's angels come to us disguised. --Lowell.

3. To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. --Spectator.

Syn: To conceal; hide; mask; dissemble; dissimulate; feign; pretend; secrete. See Conceal.
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