All 3 Uses
pantomime
in
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
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- Fire, cook, eat, good, bad (good was a mime of eating followed by a big smile, bad was Daphne's unladylike but realistic pantomime of throwing up).†
Chpt 4. *
- Cahle was good at pantomime.†
Chpt 6.
- According to quite a good pantomime from Cahle, you could make a so-so soup of it, or wash your hair in its juice, but mostly you used it as string or made clothes and bags out of it.†
Chpt 6.
Definitions:
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(pantomime) a performance or expression of something through gestures and body movements without words
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Pantomime, especially if qualified as Christmas pantomime can reference a humorous form of British theatre; or an ancient Roman type of theatre or the non-speaking actor it featured. On rare occasions, you may see the expression pantomime horse that refers to a horse costume worn by two people.