Mummer

Word MUMMER
Character 6
Hyphenation mumm er
Pronunciations /ˈmʌm.ə/

Definitions and meanings of "Mummer"

What do we mean by mummer?

A masked or costumed merrymaker, especially at a festival. noun

One who acts or plays in a pantomime. noun

An actor. noun

One who mums, or masks himself and makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a masked buffoon; specifically, in England, one of a company of persons who go from house to house at Christmas performing a kind of play, the subject being generally St. George and the Dragon, with sundry whimsical adjuncts. noun

One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon. noun

A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival. noun

An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression. noun

An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression noun

A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.

An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.

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The word "mummer" in example sentences

But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death. ❋ Kelly Creagh (2010)

Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form. ❋ Kelly Creagh (2010)

When he was not playing the libertine, he was the buffoon or mummer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another senile mummer in the whitehouse setting insane foreign policy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was just a closet dowel rod painted white, with battery-powered LED Christmas lights wrapped around it - at the top I put some ragged pieces of cloth like the Medieval mummer plays we did in England when I was a kid. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is George, squaring up to the king and bellowing his script like a mummer. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)

He is more likely some fool or mummer pretending as a favor. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)

She helped me to finance a car loan, before I went off the Troupe of American College Players in Grand Lake, Colorado, in my first paying stint as a mummer stock actor - room and board and $25.00 a week! ❋ Unknown (2008)

(Germ. = larva), and signifies disguise in a mask, hence a mummer. ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘I am sure,’ giggled Flora, tossing her head with a caricature of her girlish manner, such as a mummer might have presented at her own funeral, if she had lived and died in classical antiquity, ❋ Unknown (2007)

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