guising
English
Alternative forms
Verb
guising
- present participle and gerund of guise
Noun
guising (plural guisings)
- (historical) A festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 9, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 47:
- [I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: sincere sport they were[.]
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Tagalog
Adjective
guisíng (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)
- obsolete spelling of gising
Noun
guising (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜐᜒᜅ᜔)
- obsolete spelling of gising