guise /ˈgaɪz/
 外觀,偽裝(vt.)(vi.)偽裝


 Guise n.
 1. Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
 The swain replied, “It never was our guise
 To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”   --Pope.
 2. External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
    As then the guise was for each gentle swain.   --Spenser.
 A . . . specter, in a far more terrific guise than any which
 ever yet have overpowered the imagination.   --Burke.
 3. Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.

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 guise
      n : an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of
          friendship he betrayed them" [syn: pretense, pretence,
           pretext]