Definition of Pantomimes

1. Noun. (plural of pantomime) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of pantomime) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pantomimes

1. pantomime [v] - See also: pantomime

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantomimes

pantography
pantoic acid
pantolactone
pantolest
pantolests
pantological
pantologist
pantologists
pantology
pantometer
pantometers
pantometry
pantomime
pantomimed
pantomimer
pantomimes
pantomimic
pantomimical
pantomiming
pantomimist
pantomimists
pantomogram
pantomograph
pantomography
pantomorphia
pantomorphic
panton
pantonal
pantonine
pantons

Literary usage of Pantomimes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1888)
"The best of it is that the pantomimes do not, like too many candies or ... It is best to explain in the very beginning that they are not pantomimes at all. ..."

2. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1818)
"I. ON THE ANTIQUITY AND ORIGIN OF THE Pantomimes or HARLEQUIN, PUNCH, ... But the Scholars of Italy, whence our Pantomimes were immediately derived, ..."

3. Stage Decoration in France in the Middle Ages by Donald Clive Stuart (1910)
"Influence of the Tableaux and Pantomimes. TEXTS belonging to the first half of the fourteenth century are lacking; but reports of plays given in pantomime ..."

4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1846)
"The Christmas pantomimes have confessedly been getting worse and worse for some years. Ask any respectable play-goer, and he will tell you, with a sigh, ..."

5. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"... or pantomimes with these tian preacher is confirmed by the degraded and infamous mimes, language of the Heathen Zosimus, Vol. iii. p. 350. ..."

6. The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side by Leigh Hunt (1835)
"X.—Pantomimes. HE that says he does not like a Pantomime, either says what he does not think, or is not so wise as he fancies himself. ..."

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