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The face you choose, worn so the one you can't choose stays hidden.
means A covering for the face, worn to conceal identity, protect, disguise, or perform — or, figuratively, any false front put up to hide one's true feelings.
from From French 'masque', borrowed in the 1500s, which came from Italian 'maschera' or 'mascara'. Beyond that the trail forks: one likely root is Medieval Latin 'masca', meaning a witch, spectre, or nightmare — a thing that haunts the face. Some trace it further to Arabic 'maskharah', a buffoon or object of ridicule, from a verb meaning 'to mock'. Either way, the word was born tangled up with deception, performance, and things that aren't what they seem.
- venetian law
- Masks once let nobles gamble and flirt anonymously for months
- theater origin
- Greek actors wore masks with built-in megaphone mouths
- persona root
- Persona literally meant the mask an actor wore
- surgical myth
- Masks block your germs more than incoming ones
- death masks
- Wax casts of corpses shaped Renaissance portrait sculpture
venetian carnival mask — traditional disguise worn during venice's annual carnival festival since the 14th century
japanese noh theater mask — carved wooden mask used in classical japanese noh theater for over 600 years