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The definition of a guise is an outward appearance presented to the world that may not be true or accurate.

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When you go into the kitchen and claim you are there to help, but you are really in the kitchen to steal a cookie, this is an example of a situation where you go to the kitchen under the guise of wanting to help.

See guise in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Archaic
1. manner or way
2. customary behavior, manner, or carriage
manner of dress; garb
outward aspect; semblance
a false or deceiving appearance; pretense: under the guise of friendship

Origin: ME gise < OFr guise < OHG wisa, way, manner, akin to wise

noun

name of a Fr. ducal family of the 16th & 17th cent.

Guise, François de Lorraine 2d Duc de Guise 1519-63; Fr. statesman
Guise, Henri de Lorraine 3d Duc de Guise 1550-88; Fr. statesman: son of François

See guise in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Outward appearance or aspect; semblance.
False appearance; pretense: spoke to me under the guise of friendship.
Mode of dress; garb: huddled on the street in the guise of beggars.
Obsolete Custom; habit.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English, manner, fashion

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , of Germanic origin; see weid- in Indo-European roots

French general and politician who suppressed the Huguenots.

, Third Duke. Title of Henri de Lorraine. 1550-1588.

French military leader who helped plan the massacre of Huguenots on Saint Bartholomew's Day, 1572. His designs on the throne led to his assassination by order of Henry III.

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