make semblant

English

Verb

make semblant (third-person singular simple present makes semblant, present participle making semblant, simple past and past participle made semblant)

  1. (obsolete) To appear (to do something); to make a show of. [13th–17th c.]
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:
      Than toke he hys swerde agayne and put hit up in hys sheethe, and made a crosse in hys forehede, and cam to the lyons. And they made sembelaunte to do hym harme.
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