Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sports of mummers; masking or masquerade.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of mum.
Examples
“By the early 1600s, however, the excesses of "Christmas-keepers" in England had only increased, when such practices as "mumming" had become common.”
“The custom of Christmas masking, "mumming," or "disguising" can be traced at the English court as early as the reign of Edward III.”
“They ever incline to the baby-talk style of composition, -- "mumming," as the tavern-woman proposed, the bread and milk which they set before their youthful readers.”
“As it stands, this old Christmas Mumming Play (which seems to have borrowed the name of an Easter Entertainment or Pasque Egg) is not fit for domestic performance; and though probably there are few nurseries in those parts of England where "mumming" and the sword-dance still linger, in which the children do not play some version of”
“As it stands, this old Christmas Mumming Play (which seems to have borrowed the name of an Easter Entertainment or Pasque Egg) is not fit for domestic performance; and though probably there are few nurseries in those parts of England where "mumming" and the sword-dance still linger, in which the children do not play some version of St. George's exploits, a little of the dialogue goes a long way, and the mummery”
“However for the purposes of this column, I am going to focus on the extraordinary work of his brother Dara Vallely, also a painter but better known as the founder of the Armagh Rhymers, who are carrying on an ancient tradition of masked 'mumming' that is mentioned in the Táin Bó Cuailgne (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) and is even depicted in the prehistoric cave paintings of south-west France.”
“There were masques and mumming, with colors so bright that they were almost painful to the eye.”
“It was as good as a mumming to see him puzzle as to what to do.”
“Hence, any mumming performance in which fantastic dancing is an important feature. close window”
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Perdido Street Station
Words that I had to look up, from the Weird Fiction book Perdido Street Station by China Miéville.
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