mimicry

• This is an example of bio-mimicry, which is something we're really starting to look a lot more for. —  Alex Steffen sees a sustainable future
• He had strong powers of mimicry--could talk with a peasant quite in his own style, and frequently in general society introduced rustic patois_, northern, southern, or midland, with great truth and effect; but these things were inlaid dramatically, or playfully, upon his narrative. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
• The Negro himself had also contributed to this fiction by his custom of social mimicry, his habit of appearing to fill the role which whites expected of him. —  The Black Experience in America
• An unconscious mimicry is always producing countless echoes of an original writer. —  English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
• Even to call a thing by the name of any object is sufficient with children to establish its identity with that object for the purposes of a game or mimicry, and a large part of children's games are based on such pretensions. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)

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