false face

1. 1.

   a mask worn as part of a masquerade costume

   Broadermask

   Part offancy dress

Questions about false face

What does false face mean?

false face means "a mask worn as part of a masquerade costume".

Is false face a common word?

false face is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.