mummery

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"Come on, old chap," was all he said 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 Christmas-tide.

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  1. noun A performance by mummers.
  2. noun A pretentious or hypocritical show or ceremony.

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  • By this piece of effrontery he brought to Pen Cuckoo a dram of mummery, and ever since those days most of the Jernighams had had a passion for theatricals. —  Overture to Death - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 08: 1939
  • An infuriated squaw, to whom all this mummery was the gravest and most momentous of concerns, flew at him, brandishing a tomahawk over his head. —  BOOTS AND SADDLES: OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
  • He broke into a storm of laughter which ended as abruptly as it began, ended from a sudden realisation that all this folly and mummery was a real and solid effort to compass his escape. —  Men of Affairs
  • That mummery is at an end. —  The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
  • Colonel Warrington certainly told me the people saw through all the mummery, and laughed, or were angry. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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  1. French mommerie, from Old French momer, to wear a mask, pantomime.

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  1. Formerly also mommery; from Old French mommerie, French momerie (= Spanish momeria = Dutch mommerij = G, mummerei = Danish mummeri), mummery, from momer, mum, go a mumming: see mum.
 

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