Usage examples (36)

• The horse looked about in the thick of the night, as the head of the horse peers out of the cloak, in Welsh mummery, at
• It needed to be left in peace and quiet, not be stirred up to listen to what, in her increasing ire, the nurse termed mummery and flummery.
• In this "mummery" the most successful spectacle was that presented by a group arranged in obvious ridicule of
• The "mummery" consisted in slow, gliding motions, in whirlings about intended to be graceful, in slow liftings of the hands upward, and in the beating of the drums.