Brewer's: Incog

i.e. Incognito (Italian). Under an assumed name or title. When a royal person travels, and does not wish to be treated with royal ceremony, he assumes some inferior title for the nonce, and travels incog.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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