Both Uses of
guise
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- There are many warm hearts in the same solitary guise as poor little Miss La Creevy's.†
Chpt 20 *
- But with Mrs Wititterly the two titles were all sufficient; coarseness became humour, vulgarity softened itself down into the most charming eccentricity; insolence took the guise of an easy absence of reserve, attainable only by those who had had the good fortune to mix with high folks.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(guise) a deceptive outward appearance
or more rarely:
any outward appearance -- especially one that is new or clever