单词 | miming |
释义 | mimingn. The practice or a performance of mime (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] miming1616 pantomimicry1728 pantomime1791 mime1932 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > miming miming1965 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes cxv, in Wks. I. 807 [He] Acts old Iniquitie, and in the fit Of miming, gets th'opinion of a wit. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 10 But in an ill houre hath his unfortunate rashnesse stumbl'd upon the mention of miming. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. iii. x. 265 All kinds of pageants, mimings, masks, and frolics. 1895 Atlantic Monthly June 841 He was dealing with just that phase of the subject [sc. Japanese spiritualism] most likely to repel a cultivated observer, the theatrical side, with its mummeries and mimings, its hysteria and hypnotism. 1937 G. Greene in Night & Day 12 Aug. 31/1 I shall remember the short miming scene at night in the hedged garden. 1965 Melody Maker 3 Apr. 16 Miming is slowly disappearing from the pop scene. 1990 T. McEvilley in A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture (rev. ed.) 76 Various tribal rites involve the ritual miming, by men, of female menstruation and parturition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616 |
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