Antimasque
a comic or grotesque performance, as a dance, presented before or between the acts of a masque.
Historical Examples
Antimask, antimasque, an′ti-mask, n. a ridiculous interlude dividing the parts of the more serious mask.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
noun
a comic or grotesque dance, presented between the acts of a masque
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