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Dec 05, 2011 07:45

mummer - (mum' ər)

Any of the masked and costumed people (especially in England) who travel about, often at Christmastime, acting out short pantomimes.

I wanted an adventure, and I went with the mummers. I played the part of the Turkish Knight.
From Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native.

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