guising

English

Verb

guising

1. present participle of guise

Noun

guising (plural guisings)

1. (historical) A festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [I]n more genial ages, your Christmas Guisings, Feasts of the Ass, Abbots of Unreason, were a considerable something: since sport they were[.]

Related terms

• guiser