guise
pronunciation
How to pronounce guise in British English:
UK [ɡaɪz]
How to pronounce guise in American English:
US [ɡaɪz]
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- Noun:
- an artful or simulated semblance
Word Origin
- guise
- guise: see geezer
- guise (n.)
- late 13c., "style or fashion of attire," from Old French guise "manner, fashion, way," from Frankish *wisa or some similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *wison "appearance, form, manner," from *wissaz (cognates: Old High German wisa "manner, wise"), from PIE root *weid- "to see" (see vision). Sense of "assumed appearance" is from 1660s, from earlier meaning "mask, disguise" (c. 1500).
Example
- 1. Local food lets farming lobbies campaign against imports under the guise of environmentalism .
- 2. This is the closest to government that al-qaeda , under any guise , has ever come .
- 3. Ultimately , that may be so : plenty of stocks do indeed return to market , in one guise or another .
- 4. He and his team want to extend the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest households , and they 're trying to do so under the guise of helping small business .
- 5. Sadly , the two republican congressmen behind the ban consider they have been designed " to destroy every aspect of american freedom under the guise of conservation " .