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: a form or style of dress : costume
attended the masquerade in the guise of a court jester
Examples of guise in a Sentence
he sneaked into the castle to rescue Ivanhoe in the guise of a priest coming to give Ivanhoe his last rites
she felt as though she should be wearing some sort of Germanic guise, complete with dirndl, for the fall festival featuring traditional German food and drink
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Now Schaffer is trying to sneak the same high-grade, unadulterated fun into a major motion picture, with a steely Neeson as its guise.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
There are a number of ways the club is now resembling its former guise, despite a world of difference in wealth and purported ambition, and this is one of them.
—Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Collins, who has previously celebrated the unique pleasures of the early dinner, finds something to like about lunch in all its guises—the power lunch, the liquid lunch, even the sad desk lunch.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Anything less will imitate Trump, all in the guise of resisting him.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
There are a number of ways the club is now resembling its former guise, despite a world of difference in wealth and purported ambition, and this is one of them.
—Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Collins, who has previously celebrated the unique pleasures of the early dinner, finds something to like about lunch in all its guises—the power lunch, the liquid lunch, even the sad desk lunch.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Anything less will imitate Trump, all in the guise of resisting him.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for guise
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“Guise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guise. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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Biographical Definition
Guise 1 of 2
biographical name (1)
ˈgēz,
also
ˈgwēz 
2nd Duc de 1519–1563 François de Lorraine French soldier and politician
Guise
2 of 2biographical name (2)
3rd Duc de 1550–1588 Henri I de Lorraine French soldier and politician
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