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pantomime
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pantomime \Pan"to*mime\, n. [F., fr. L. pantomimus, Gr. ?, lit., all-imitating; pa^s, panto`s, all + ? to imitate: cf. It. pantomimo. See Mimic.]
A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor. [Obs.]
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One who acts his part by gesticulation or dumb show only, without speaking; a pantomimist; a mime.
[He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.
--Tylor. A dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb show; a depiction of an event, narrative, or situation using only gestures and bodily movements, without speaking; hence, dumb show, generally.
A dramatic and spectacular entertainment of which dumb acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and dancing by Clown, Harlequin, etc., are features.
Pantomime \Pan"to*mime\, a. Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "mime actor," from Latin pantomimus "mime, dancer," from Greek pantomimos "actor," literally "imitator of all," from panto- (genitive of pan) "all" (see pan-) + mimos "imitator" (see mime (n.)).\n
\nMeaning "drama or play without words" first recorded 1735. The English dramatic performances so called, usually at Christmas and with words and songs and stock characters, are attested by this name from 1739; said to have originated c.1717. Related: Pantomimic; pantomimical.
1768, from pantomime (n.). Related: Pantomimed; pantomiming.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime. (from 17th c.) 2 (context historical English) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work. (from 17th c.) 3 (context UK English) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, and fairy-tale plots. (from 18th c.) 4 Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime. (from 18th c.) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To gesture without speaking. 2 (context transitive English) To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.
WordNet
v. act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple" [syn: mime]
Wikipedia
Pantomime is a type of musical comedy stage production, developed in England and designed for family entertainment, mostly performed during Christmas and New Year season.
Pantomime may also refer to:
- American pantomime, a North American variant of the English theatrical genre
- Mime – acting or performance using silent gestures, another theatrical genre primarily associated with France
- Charades, a party game sometimes called "pantomime"
- Pantomime (EP), by The Pillows (also the title of its first track)
- "Pantomime", a song by Incubus from the album Alive at Red Rocks
Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production, designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is still performed there, generally during the Christmas and New Year season and, to a lesser extent, in other English-speaking countries. Modern pantomime includes songs, slapstick comedy and dancing, employs gender-crossing actors, and combines topical humour with a story loosely based on a well-known fairy tale, fable or folk tale. It is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.
Pantomime has a long theatrical history in Western culture dating back to classical theatre, and it developed partly from the 16th century commedia dell'arte tradition of Italy, as well as other European and British stage traditions, such as 17th-century masques and music hall. An important part of the pantomime, until the late 19th century, was the harlequinade.
Outside Britain the word "pantomime" is usually used to mean miming, rather than the theatrical form discussed here.
is an EP released by The Pillows on May 21, 1990. It marked the band's debut and has since, like its follow-up 90's My Life, gone out of print.
Usage examples of "pantomime".
Nurse Banks went to the side table, took up the ampoule of camphor, went through the pantomime of filling a syringe and returned to the patient.
I was also glad to see a Venetian of my acquaintance who played the pantaloon in the pantomime, three tolerably pretty actresses, a pulcinella, and a scaramouch.
If nothing distinct and external is considered necessary, but the substrate itself can become everything and adopt every character, like the versatile dancer in the pantomime, it ceases to be a substrate: it is, essentially, everything.
There was a crashing through the trees and bushes away to the right, but then a mottled, startled Friesian burst out near them like a pantomime cow, head up, legs comically uncertain.
To any strangers she was invariably described, with expressive signs and gestures, as the one who had been chained, Baneelon making a great pantomime of it, groaning, rolling his eyes, and pointing to Pinchgut Island, which instantly won her the sympathy of the newcomers.
After a few more interchanges and some seriocomic pantomime on the part of Keikano who now stood a pace behind his minister, Crispin Reventlo dirust out his hand.
With gesture and pantomime she was helping to bind padding onto the butts of singlesticks, for the practice bouts.
Widow Twankey has come back to earth to restore the pantomime to its original condition.
I was also glad to see a Venetian of my acquaintance who played the pantaloon in the pantomime, three tolerably pretty actresses, a pulcinella, and a scaramouch.
She had started to open it for herself, but pantomimed joyful surprise at his gesture and let him finish it.
She went through another series of pantomimes, some of which were so energetic and comical that he had to smile.
I shook my head at the waiter and made a few other facial pantomimes to let him know that I was picking up the whole tab.
Where it snapped off a red dancer cringed, cowering, pantomiming fear.
She had not been taken in by the little pantomime he had put on with the Triads and guessed that they were friends of his.
You may imagine what difficulty we had in understanding one another, but we guessed somehow the meaning expressed by our pantomime, and I accepted the adventure with delight.