Masquerades meaning : An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. The act of wearing a mask or dressing up in a costume for, or as if for, a masquerade ball. An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display. An assembly of varied, often fanciful, things. A cosplay event at which costumed attendees perform skits. A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask or masque. A Spanish entertainment or military exercise in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes. To take part in a masquerade; to assemble in masks and costumes; to wear a disguise. To pass off as a different person or a person with qualities that one does not possess; also, to make a pretentious show of being what one is not. To conceal (someone) with, or as if with, a mask; to disguise.