Talk about wearing false colors. I doubt if this will ever come up in court but in case it does by reading the following you may be better prepared.
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"Zoologically speaking, there are no native rabbits in the United States; they are all hares. But the early colonists, for some unknown reason, dropped the word hare out of their vocabulary, and it is rarely heard in American speech to this day. When it appears it is almost always applied to the so-called Belgian hare, which, curiously enough, is not a hare at all, but a true rabbit." [H.L. Mencken]
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masquerade (n.) 1597, from Fr. mascarade or Sp. mascarada "masked party or dance," from It. mascarata "a ball at which masks are worn," var. of mascherata "masquerade," from maschera (see mask). Fig. sense of "false outward show" is from 1674. The verb is attested from 1692.
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Maybe Elvis was right. "He ain't never caught a rabbit and he ain't no friend of mine".