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noun an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
noun any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity
noun the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
originFrom Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0