mummeries

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A form of mummery — Mumming; disguising oneself to perform as a mummer, or to take part in some other festivities or performance.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of mummery

    Oh, Pip! thy wretched laugh, thy idle but unresting eye; all thy strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the melancholy ship, and mocked it!

    1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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Chicago

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