The corpus record
maison · ὁ
native cook
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native cook, at Athens, Ath. 14.659a; derived from μασᾶσθαι by Chrysipp. ibid., but acc. to Ar.Byz.ibid. it means comic mask of a cook, sailor, etc., named after an actor so called:—hence μαισωνικὰ σκώμματα, ib.b.
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