Both Uses of
pantomime
in
Great Expectations
- I expressed in pantomime the greatest astonishment.
Chpt 37 *pantomime = gestures and body movements (without words)
- The second piece was the last new grand comic Christmas pantomime, in the first scene of which, it pained me to suspect that I detected Mr. Wopsle with red worsted legs under a highly magnified phosphoric countenance and a shock of red curtain-fringe for his hair, engaged in the manufacture of thunderbolts in a mine, and displaying great cowardice when his gigantic master came home (very hoarse) to dinner.†
Chpt 47
Definition:
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(pantomime) a performance or expression of something through gestures and body movements without words