mummer

How To Use mummer In A Sentence

• You can hardly move for minstrels, mummers and madcaps: the rolling programme of ye olde entertainment includes music from the Singing Plague Victims and have-a-go heraldry for youngsters.
• After dinner the loving cup went round: the minstrels led in the players: and they had dramatic shows, songs, dances and 'mummeries' for the rest of the day. The History of London
• The United Nations is a dim hive of self-interested parties engaged in endless parliamentary mummery, united by a consensual delusion that all nations are equal.
• mummeries" in the affair of the dropped letters, 74; her account of the Queen's reception of the news of the abortive attempt to kill Mazarin, 103; her portrait of Madame de Longueville, 135; the principal motive which urged La Rochefoucauld to woo the Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
• 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. Nevermore
• In this "mummery" the most successful spectacle was that presented by a group arranged in obvious ridicule of Granvelle. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
• While the traditional roles are not always filled by the same mummers, they have their favourites.
• Strutt [40] says that the "mummeries" practised by the lower classes of the people usually took place at the Christmas holidays; and such persons as could not procure masks rubbed their faces over with soot, or painted them; hence Sebastian Brant, in his "Ship of Fools Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
• It is interesting that the word mummeries, which excited so much indignation in Lord John's Durham letter, occurs in this letter. Lady John Russell
• They frowned severely on what they termed the mummeries of Madawando. A Little Girl in Old Quebec