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ˈBergamask Also 6 Bergomask, 7 Burgomaske. [ad. It. Bergamasco of Bergamo.] †1. Bergomask dance: a rustic dance, framed in imitation of the people of Bergamo (a province in the state of Venice), ridiculed as clownish in their manners and dialect. Nares.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. 360 Will it please you..to heare a Bergomask dance..Come, your Burgomaske. 2. A native or inhabitant of Bergamo.
1602Marston Ant. & Mellida i. Introd., A wealthie mountbanking burgomasco's heire of Venice. 1821Byron Doge of Ven. iv. ii. 295 'Tis a certain Bertram..Doge. Bertram, the Bergamask. |