Masquerade

The word masquerade has a number of meanings:

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• A masquerade ball is a ball, dance, or party; in which, participants wear elaborate costumes and hide their true identity.
• Masquerade is a book written by Kit Williams
• Masquerade is a band (Drafi Deutscher) who had a minor hit in 1984 with the song "Guardian Angel"
• IP Masquerade is a synonym for Network address translation (NAT) which allows internally connected computers that do not have one or more public (Internet) IP addresses to communicate to the Internet via the NAT-equipped router's public address.
• Masquerade, is also a kind of attack in data communication, in which a third party tries to mislead the communication participants using forged information.
• Masquerade (song), from the Musical "The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)"
• Masquerade is an opera by Carl Nielsen.
• Masquerade, as applied to a science fiction convention, is a staged formal event similar to a costume fashion show where individuals walk onto stage and perform a skit or strike a dramatic pose in a contest for awards for costume construction and presentation. Sometimes also called a costume call or cosplay.
• The Masquerade is a fictional term from White Wolf Game Studio's ', which describes the efforts of the vampiric Camarilla to hide from humanity. This practice was begun during the 15th Century, in response to the Inquisition. has a similar practice, the Dance Macabre.
• Masquerade was a short-lived TV series aired on ABC in 1983.