SCHNEIDER: That's a mummer, it's an old Welsh tradition. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush/Cheney Depart Philadelphia - August 4, 2000] Reference
(Germ. = larva), and signifies disguise in a mask, hence a mummer. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
When he was not playing the libertine, he was the buffoon or mummer. From Wordnik.com. [The Stream and The Torrent] Reference
Once the men were shrouded, everyone took their seats and the mummer died down. From Wordnik.com. [Koriteh] Reference
You bad-luck piece, you cadging Athenian mummer with your moneybag up your shirt!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
The mummer returned quickly; but the majority of the migrants stayed abroad for some time. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
In what point is the Darwaysh more a mummer or in what does he show more of betise than the quack?. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
“Not such a mummer as I am within the walls, and thou knowest that well enough, dame,” replied the apprentice. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
In these we may recognize the skin-clad mummer and the man aping a woman whom we meet in the old Kalends denunciations. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
Or else, like the consummate mummer that he was, he put on the gloomy countenance of a man about to reveal the secret of his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
It is as though we caught Ajax masquerading as a mummer, or. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
"Now run along, baby; your mummer will be waitin 'for you.". From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks Astray] Reference
It would be like the dressing-room of some woman mummer. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Bloweth] Reference
"Looks more like a mummer or stage-player than a midshipman.". From Wordnik.com. [Paddy Finn] Reference
After some unholy admiration, she sent to speak to the mummer. From Wordnik.com. [The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1] Reference
They say you want to give your daughter in marriage to a mummer. From Wordnik.com. [Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme] Reference
The head of the old actor capitally suggests the Spanish mummer. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
By simple definition, a mummer is typically explained as a clown. From Wordnik.com. [WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Local News, Weather and Sports for Wilmington, NC and the Cape Fear Region] Reference
But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference
"A living lie," he replied bitterly, "a masquerader, a mummer, a nobody.". From Wordnik.com. [Jack O' Judgment] Reference
If times were hard and engagements few, that was the price the mummer must pay. From Wordnik.com. [The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life] Reference
'Ah! don't you, indeed?' replied the mummer, looking at her in blank astonishment. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
On the luckless mummer who had incurred his displeasure he poured out the vials of his wrath. From Wordnik.com. [Fifth Avenue] Reference
The mummer was in the spare room; but he would be gone to-morrow, and she would be left alone. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
Ralph to have you sitting up when I could look after him just as well, and all because of the mummer. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
We see this jest reflected in the satire of the Middle Ages, in the bitter gibes of mummer and buffoon. From Wordnik.com. [Americans and Others] Reference
Hypocrite, mummer, the life of him a mere theatricality; empty barren quack, hungry for the shouts of mobs?. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
Abbe Maury did not pull; but the Charcoalmen brought a mummer guised like him, so he had to pull in effigy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
But her mother-in-law, guessing that Kate was thinking of the mummer, said, 'Yes, I wanted to talk to you about that. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
Ralph has set his mind on having the rooms let, and the mummer, as you call him, is coming here to-day; it's all settled. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
Charlotte hesitated; then she went timidly on, at each step growing less Charlotte, the mummer of a minute, and more the anxious. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age] Reference
At this stage of the conversation Bongrand, very jocular by nature, and with a good deal of the mummer about him, began to enact the scene. From Wordnik.com. [His Masterpiece] Reference
A mummer; but I didn't think I should live to see my son's house turned into a night house. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Wife] Reference
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