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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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And in its current guise, the RS E-Tron GT Performance delivers.
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2025
After almost a decade out of the game, cult smartwatch brand Pebble has returned with a duo of watches, and under a new brand guise, Core Devices.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Plunkett, like Pritchard, admires Frost in all his guises.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
When its coolant ran out in September 2010, NASA kept WISE going for a few months in a new guise — NEOWISE — to hunt for near-Earth objects (NEOs) that are visible at the warmer infrared wavelengths that didn't require coolant for the spacecraft to detect them.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2025
After almost a decade out of the game, cult smartwatch brand Pebble has returned with a duo of watches, and under a new brand guise, Core Devices.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Plunkett, like Pritchard, admires Frost in all his guises.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
When its coolant ran out in September 2010, NASA kept WISE going for a few months in a new guise — NEOWISE — to hunt for near-Earth objects (NEOs) that are visible at the warmer infrared wavelengths that didn't require coolant for the spacecraft to detect them.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Guise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guise. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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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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