Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. · That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge. · Appearance, likeness. · A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor. · To disguise as something else. · To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide. · To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā, from which English mesh and mask (“mesh”) (below at Etymology 2) are inherited. Doublet of mascara, masque, and mesh. Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
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