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pantomime (iou)



pantomime noun, adjective, & verb. Also (earlier) in Latin form pantomimus, pl. -mimi. L16.
[French, or Latin pantomimus from Greek pantomimos adjective & noun: see PANTO-, MIME.]
A. noun.
Hist. A mimic actor, esp. in ancient Rome; a person who expressed meaning through gesture and action without words. L16.
A dramatic Entertainment in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by Music. M17.
A traditional theatrical performance, orig. in mime, now consisting of a dramatized fairy tale or nursery story, with Music, dancing, topical jokes, and conventional characters, freq. played by actors of the opposite sex from the characters, chiefly performed in Britain around Christmas. M18.
Times Literary Supplement The annual pantomime..opens on boxing day. Guardian Last Christmas he was back on stage in pantomime in Manchester.
b. fig. An absurd or outrageous piece of behaviour. colloq. M20.
I. Murdoch He waved his camera case rhythmically and clapped his hands...Dora stared at this pantomime.
(A) significant gesture without speech; (a) mime. L18.
H. Keller She drops the signs and pantomime she used before, as soon as she has words.
b. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of (a) pantomime. M18.
Mail on Sunday One of the greatest pantomime artists I ever saw. Independent The pantomime horse would distract the players by galloping across the stage.
C. verb.
verb intrans. Express oneself in mime. Also, behave as though in a pantomime. M18.
J. Updike Van Horne..pantomimed with his uncanny hands.
verb trans. Express or represent by pantomime. M19.
pantomimist noun a person who writes or acts in a pantomime. M19.

Defoe, Daniel (sh)




orig. Daniel Foe

born 1660, London, Eng.
died April 24, 1731, London

British novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist.

A well-educated London merchant, he became an acute economic theorist and began to write eloquent, witty, often audacious tracts on public affairs. A satire he published resulted in his being imprisoned in 1703, and his business collapsed. He traveled as a government secret agent while continuing to write prolifically. In 1704-13 he wrote practically single-handedly the periodical Review, a serious and forceful paper that influenced later essay periodicals such as The Spectator. His Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, 3 vol. (1724-26), followed several trips to Scotland. Late in life he turned to Fiction. He achieved literary immortality with the novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), which drew partly on memoirs of voyagers and castaways. He is also remembered for the vivid, picaresque Moll Flanders (1722); the nonfictional Journal of the Plague Year (1722), on the Great Plague in London in 1664-65; and Roxana (1724), a prototype of the modern novel.


Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the ...

Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, London