Masquerade

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The word masquerade has a number of meanings:

• A masquerade ball is a ball, dance, or party; in which, participants wear elaborate costumes and hide their true identity.
• Masquerade is a book written by Kit Williams
• Masquerade is a band (Drafi Deutscher) who had a minor hit in 1984 with the song "Guardian Angel"
• IP Masquerade is a synonym for Network address translation (NAT) which allows internally connected computers that do not have one or more public (Internet) IP addresses to communicate to the Internet via the NAT-equipped router's public address.
• Masquerade, is also a kind of attack in data communication, in which a third party tries to mislead the communication participants using forged information.
• Masquerade (song), from the Musical "The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)"
• Masquerade is an opera by Carl Nielsen.
• Masquerade, as applied to a science fiction convention, is a staged formal event similar to a costume fashion show where individuals walk onto stage and perform a skit or strike a dramatic pose in a contest for awards for costume construction and presentation. Sometimes also called a costume call or cosplay.
• The Masquerade is a fictional term from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade, which describes the efforts of the vampiric Camarilla to hide from humanity. This practice was begun during the 15th Century, in response to the Inquisition. Vampire: The Requiem has a similar practice, the Dance Macabre.
• Masquerade was a short-lived TV series aired on ABC in 1983.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Masquerade" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade, used under the GNU Free Documentation License