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单词 pantomime entertainment
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pantomime entertainment
C1. General attributive and objective (chiefly in sense A. 3a), as pantomime animal, pantomime dance, pantomime drama, pantomime entertainment, pantomime-goer, etc.
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1734 tr. C. Rollin Method teaching & studying Belles Lettres IV. 397/1 A Prince of Pontus..having seen a famous Pantomime dance with so much art,..desired the Emperor to make him a present of that dancer.
1734Pantomime entertainment [see sense A. 3a].
1746 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 40 An Obnubilative, Pantomime Entertainment to be exhibited at Mr. Clark's.
1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 80 [The Cherokees] are..very dexterous at pantomime dances; several of which I have seen performed that were very diverting.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 412 In the intervals of the dance three men performed something of a pantomime drama.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiii. 219 Mr. Folair made a funny face from his pantomime collection.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iv. 208 The king in the pantomime, with his pantomime wife, and pantomime courtiers,..whom he pokes with his pantomime sceptre.
1897 N.Y. Daily Tribune 25 Oct. 10/2 It [sc. cake-walking] has become, however, a pantomime dance.
1901 R. J. Broadbent Hist. Pantomime xix. 196 This clashing..cannot but..adversely affect the box-office receipts, unless, of course the Pantomime-goer makes a point of ‘doing the round’.
1908 G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits (1932) 74 A pantomime animal with two men in it is a mistake when the two are not very carefully paired.
1952 Life 17 Nov. 70/1 One of the pantomime skits which Barrault tosses into his program from time to time is this scene.
2001 Times 2 Jan. ii. 19/5 Nick Cotton, the pantomime villain with his own boo-hiss machine, has already fallen off a bridge.
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