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What is the noun for guise?

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guise
  1. Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)
  2. External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
  3. Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “We suffer impatience under the guise of being so busy and efficient that we should not have to put up with those of the world who are not as busy and efficient as we are.”
      “Death would manifest itself in the guise of the Grim Reaper to Bill and Ted during their bogus journey.”
      “He can be described as an Egyptian officer dressed up in Asiatic guise.”
disguise
  1. Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.
  2. (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
  3. The act of disguising, notably as a ploy
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  5. Examples:
    1. “When the war ended in 1918, he donned a disguise and fled temporarily into Switzerland.”
      “Scarlet's childish behavior was only a disguise for her true self as a woman of virtue and honor.”
disguiser
  1. One who, or that which, disguises.
  2. (obsolete) One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The collective noun for a group of tailors is a disguiser – and Savile Row is about the only one left in the world.”
      “Guilt is the great disguiser, blacking the white of the sun.”
guising
  1. (historical) A festival at which people disguised themselves in costumes and often played pranks.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It's a general description of nineteenth-century English Christmas customs, including wassailing and guising, apparently taken from published accounts.”
      “However, there was revival from the late 18th century and seasonal and community festivals, mumming and guising all flourished.”
      “The only exception to this is the full text of a guising, or Galoshin, play from Balmaghie.”
disguising
disguisement
  1. disguise (deceptive appearance)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But one night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home, and robbed them all of everything.”
disguisedness
  1. The state of being disguised.
guisard
  1. (archaic) guiser, mummer
  2. Examples:
    1. “He oversaw the printing of devotional and polemical literature, some connected to projects for a guisard invasion to liberate Mary Queen of Scots.”
      “Some guisard doubtless told him of what had occurred between Amyot and the queen-mother.”
disguize
  1. Obsolete form of disguise.
guise
  1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of guys.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We suffer impatience under the guise of being so busy and efficient that we should not have to put up with those of the world who are not as busy and efficient as we are.”
      “Death would manifest itself in the guise of the Grim Reaper to Bill and Ted during their bogus journey.”
      “He can be described as an Egyptian officer dressed up in Asiatic guise.”
guiser
  1. A person in disguise.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The guiser cunningly maneuvered through the crowd, concealing their true identity behind a clever disguise.”
      “Of course this year I've got my own wee guiser who will be transformed into Tinkerbell tonight.”
      “The saddest of these is the account of fourteen-year-old Anne Wadsworth, stabbed fatally by a cross-dressing guiser, who was carrying a posy to a wedding event.”
disguisements
disguisings
disguisers
  1. plural of disguiser
disguises
  1. plural of disguise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The truth is, though, sometimes spies really do resort to cunning disguises and hidden cameras.”
      “He often wore disguises, went by a number of aliases, and customarily destroyed the records of his investigations.”
      “She is blessed with an exotic natural beauty and a porcelain fragility which cleverly disguises her great pliancy and strong technique.”
disguizes
  1. plural of disguize
guisards
  1. plural of guisard
guisings
  1. plural of guising
guisers
guises
  1. plural of guise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “You'll have seen the madcap clowning, close harmony singing, movie pastiches and magic performed by various performers in various guises.”
      “Germany is a looking-glass land for rockers, a place to slip personae and assume new guises.”
      “Like Rembrandt, his contemporaries among the Restoration portraitists favoured fanciful mythological guises.”
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