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panto|ˈpæntəʊ|
[Abbrev. pantomime n. (a.).]
= pantomime n. (a.) 3; also attrib.
1852E. L. Blanchard Jrnl. 15 Sept. in Scott & Howard Life E. L. Blanchard (1891) I. 98 At home till 5 p.m. fixing on titles for pantos... Arrange for panto with Smith for Drury. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. ii. 865 ‘You're on the stage, aren't you?’ ‘I usually get into panto,’ she admitted. 1922Joyce Ulysses 533 Immoral panto boys in flesh tights. 1929J. B. Priestley Good Companions ii. i. 251 That's right. A lot of experience. C.P. work, halls, panto, low comedy in legit., know it all. 1937G. Frankau More of Us xi. 121 Eke tho' of words bard still commands a brainful Which she can still make dance like panto elves. 1962Oxford Times 1 June 23/4 Orsino and Viola..the latter part, although difficult in its mixture of boyishness and charm, should not really be played as a principal boy in panto. 1968Listener 26 Dec. 871/3 Nor has the standard of the witless, panto-type sketches been raised. 1969Ibid. 28 May 663/1, I was glad that Hazel Hughes should play her..like Kenneth Williams as painless panto dame. 1976Sunday Post (Glasgow) 26 Dec. 3/3 She was transporting it from Calderpark Zoo to the Pavilion panto, where it was due to appear in the cartoon spot featuring TV personality Glen Michael. 1977R.A.F. News 11–24 May 3/5 The organizers ran an ‘ad lib’ version of the panto ‘Cinderella’. |