单词 | wayang kulit |
释义 | wayang kulitn. The traditional Indonesian (esp. Javanese) shadow puppet theatre, which is performed using leather puppets manipulated with rods. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > shadow puppetry > Javanese wayang1671 wayang kulit1816 1816 T. S. Raffles in Pamphleteer 8 86 The Wayang Kulit or scenic shadows, in which several heroes of the drama..are made to perform their entrances and exits behind a transparent curtain. 1894 J. D. Vaughan in N. B. Dennys Descr. Dict. Brit. Malaya 324 In a puppet show the figures are seen and in this their shadows are. The show is called wayang kulit, or leather puppets. 1936 G. B. Gardner Keris i. 21 The figures are usually grotesque, of the wayang kulit type. 1966 D. Forbes Heart of Malaya viii. 100 Figures that moved across the frame of the doorway looked like silhouettes in the wayang kulit, the shadow play. 2005 T. Aw Harmony Silk Factory iii. 291 I had been invited by the Soongs to join them at the wayang kulit, or shadow theatre, which I understood was a kind of Oriental Punch and Judy accompanied by wind instruments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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