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incognito
/ˌɪnkɔɡˈnitoʊ/
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What does incognito mean?
adjective
- Without being known; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title; in disguise.
adverb
- Without revealing one's identity.
noun
- One unknown or in disguise, or under an assumed character or name.
More meanings (1)
noun
- The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪnkɔɡˈnitoʊ/
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“A Frenchman or a Russian prince incognito,” said the officer, looking at Pierre’s fine though dirty linen and at the ring on his finger.
Shut up in the apartments of the Regent, he was secure from all attack, and, whenever he ventured abroad, it was either incognito, or in one of the Royal carriages, with a powerful escort.
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By degrees, as War passed from the hand-to-hand encounters of the middle ages into a more regular and systematic form, stray reflections on this point also forced themselves into men’s minds, but they mostly appeared only incidentally in memoirs and narratives, and in a certain measure incognito.
The Disinherited Knight refused all other assistance save that of his own squire, or rather yeoman—a clownish-looking man, who, wrapt in a cloak of dark-coloured felt, and having his head and face half-buried in a Norman bonnet made of black fur, seemed to affect the incognito as much as his master.
I have myself no idea that she was a countess incognito, or that she had descended from any greater heights than those where Mandeville saw her, but I have always regretted that she went her way so mysteriously and left no glow, and that we shall wear out the remainder of our days without her society.