mummer

IPA: mˈʌmɝ

A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.

Examples of "mummer" in Sentences

They try to guess the identity of each Mummer.
The mummers carry wooden swords and perform revelries.
The MUMmer software is open source and can be found at.
Stop your obstructionist actions on the Mummer articles.
The Mummers Association is the technical head of the parade.
MUMmer is a bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment.
The typical Mummer has been in anywhere from three to eight groups.
When he was not playing the libertine, he was the buffoon or mummer.
But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death.
Another senile mummer in the whitehouse setting insane foreign policy.
In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer.
The MUMmer software is open source and can be found at the MUMmer home page.
Strictly speaking, a mummer is an actor in a traditional seasonal folk play.
It was just a closet dowel rod painted white, with battery-powered LED Christmas lights wrapped around it - at the top I put some ragged pieces of cloth like the Medieval mummer plays we did in England when I was a kid.
Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.