mummer
A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festivalA person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
Значення
значень: 2A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
Mumme, verkleideter Mensch
An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.
Pantomimenspieler, Pantomime
мимmim
an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
Переклади
мов: 5За значеннями 1
За значеннями 2
Походження
From Middle English mummer, mommer, equivalent to mum + -er, perhaps conflating with Old FFrom Middle English mummer, mommer, equivalent to mum + -er, perhaps conflating with Old French momeor (“jester, entertainer”), from mommer (“to wear a mask”), from momon (“mask”). Compare German Mumme (“mask”), 16th Century German mummen (“to disguise oneself”), Middle Dutch mommen, mummen (“to go about in a mask, to disguise”), Middle Low Saxon mommen (“to wear a mask, to disguise”), Dutch mom (“mask”) and mimmen (“to mask”) as well as Spanish momo (“grimace”).
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множина: mummersСиноніми
синонімів: 4- an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression:mimemimerpantomimerpantomimist