See also:

• MASK (Fr. masque, apparently from med. Lat. mascus, masca, spectre, through Ital. maschera, Span. mascara)

MASK (Fr. masque, apparently from med. See also:

• LAT

Lat. mascus, masca, spectre, through Ital. maschera, Span. See also:

• MASCARA

mascara)  , a covering for the See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face, taking various forms, used either as a protective See also:

• SCREEN (usually, but very doubtfully, connected with Lat. scrinium, a box for holding books, from scribere, to write; a connexion with Ger. Schranke, barrier, has been suggested)

screen or as a disguise . In the latter sense masks are mostly associated with the artificial faces worn by actors in dramatic representations, or assumed for exciting terror (e.g. in See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

savage See also:

• RITES

rites) . The spelling " masque," representing the same word, is now in See also:

• ENGLISH

English used more specially for certain varieties of See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama in which masks were originally worn (see DRAMA); So also " masquerade," particularly in the sense of a masked See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

ball or an entertainment where the personages are disguised . Both " See also:

• MASK (Fr. masque, apparently from med. Lat. mascus, masca, spectre, through Ital. maschera, Span. mascara)

mask " and " masquerade " have naturally passed into figurative and technical meanings, the former especially for various senses of face and See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head (head of a See also:

• FOX
• FOX, C
• FOX, CHARLES JAMES (1749-1806)
• FOX, EDWARD (c. 1496-1538)
• FOX, GEORGE (1624-1691)
• FOX, RICHARD (c. 1448-1528)
• FOX, ROBERT WERE (1789—1877)
• FOX, SIR STEPHEN (1627–1716)
• FOX, SIR WILLIAM (1812-1893)

fox, See also:

• GROTESQUE

grotesque faces in See also:

• SCULPTURE
• SCULPTURE (Lat. sculptura, from sculpere, to carve, cognate with Gr. yXb4ew)

sculpture), or as See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to " cloak " or " screen " (as in fortification or other military uses, See also:

• FENCING

fencing, &c.) . And in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of " See also:

• DEATH

death-masks " the See also:

• TERM

term is employed for the portrait-casts, generally of See also:

• PLASTER

plaster or metallic See also:

• FOIL

foil, taken from the face of a dead See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person (also similarly from the living), an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient practice of considerable See also:

• INTEREST

interest in See also:

• ART

art . An interesting collection made by Laurence See also:

• HUTTON, CHARLES (1737-1823)
• HUTTON, JAMES (1726-1797)
• HUTTON, RICHARD HOLT (1826-1897)

Hutton (see his Portraits in Plaster, 1894), is at See also:

• PRINCETON

Princeton University in the See also:

• UNITED

United States . (For the See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical See also:

• MYSTERY (Gr. µw(Trilpcov, from tcuvrm, an initiate, µfew, to shut the mouth)

mystery of the " See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man in the See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron mask," see IRON MASK.) The ancient See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and See also:

• ROMAN

Roman masks worn by their actors—hollow figures of heads—had the See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double See also:

• OBJECT

object of identifying the performers with the characters assumed, and of increasing the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of the See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice by means of metallic mouthpieces . They were derived like the drama from the rural religious festivities, the wearing of See also:

• MOCK

mock faces or beards being a See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom, connected no doubt with many See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early types of folk-See also:

• LORE
• LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

lore and See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion . The use of the dramatic mask was evolved in the later See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre through the mimes and the See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian popular See also:

• COMEDY

comedy into See also:

• PANTOMIME

pantomime; and the masquerade similarly came from See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, where the domino was introduced from See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice . The domino (originally apparently an ecclesiastical garment) was a loose cloak with a small See also:

• HALF

half-mask worn at masquerades and See also:

• COSTUME
• COSTUME (through the Fr. costume, from Ital. costume, Late Lat. costuma, a contracted form of Lat. consuetudinem, ace. of consuetudo, custom, habit, manner, &c.)

costume-balls by persons not otherwise dressed in See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character; and the word is applied also to the person wearing it . See generally Altmann, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Masken der Schauspieler (1895; new ed., 1896) ; and See also:

• DALE, ROBERT WILLIAM (1829-1895)
• DALE, SIR THOMAS (d. 1619)

Dale, Masks, Labrets and Certain Aboriginal Customs (1885) ; also DRAMA .