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noun

Pantomime n.

A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor. (Obs.)

One who acts his part by gesticulation or dumb show only, without speaking; a pantomimist; a mime. "(He) saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone."

A dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb show; a depiction of an event, narrative, or situation using only gestures and bodily movements, without speaking; hence, dumb show, generally.

A dramatic and spectacular entertainment of which dumb acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and dancing by Clown, Harlequin, etc., are features.

adjective

Pantomime adj. Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance.

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Etymology of 'Pantomime'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pantomime" Quotes from Famous Books

... Certainly, the pantomime was inimitably got up, but it had all been arranged by Moggy, the corporal, and the others. There was not one man of the crew who had not been sworn to secrecy, and whose life would not have been endangered ...

— Snarleyyow • Captain Frederick Marryat

... choice; Madame Tres-Propre knows our preferences and leaves the green or blue lanterns aside. But it is always hard work to unhook one, on account of the little short sticks by which they are held, and the strings by which they are tied getting entangled together. In an exaggerated pantomime, Madame Tres-Propre expresses her despair at wasting so much of our valuable time: oh! if it only depended on her personal efforts! but ah, for the natural perversity of inanimate things which have no consideration ...

— Madame Chrysantheme • Pierre Loti

... in his life came. He was at a Bowery theatre, to see a Christmas pantomime. It was a fairy spectacle, and the stage was crowded with ballet-girls. There was one among them, the loveliest creature, it seemed to him, he had ever seen, with whom, in one mad moment, he fell passionately in love. A friend of his, by name Furniss, laughed at his raptures. ...

— Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters - A Novel • May Agnes Fleming

... circumstances. Then there were their friends; that dear Buckhurst, who had just been called out for styling his opponent a Venetian, and all their companions of early days. What a sudden and marvellous change in all their destinies! Life was a pantomime; the wand was waved, and it seemed that the schoolfellows had of a sudden become elements of power, springs of ...

— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli

... but quite steadily uttered, with perfect good-humour, and with a manner so rebuked as to prove that Anneke possessed great control over him. He bowed in submission, and she smiled so kindly, that I wished the occasion for the little pantomime had not occurred. ...

— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper

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