mumming

"Norman, will you play this part in the mumming?"

Later, Henry would ban social mumming, and bring the 'masque' form of entertainment to England.

Away with you and your mumming!'

They move frenetic, in a sped-up mumming of their usual work, over a rubble of nimbostratus stone.

What fecund mumming!

She began in a terrific hurry to explain that all European mumming had a common origin: that it was only reasonable to expect a little dialogue.

Guising or mumming was common at winter festivals in general, but was "particularly appropriate to a night upon which supernatural beings were said to be abroad".

Mumming, at any rate in the South of England, had its heyday at the end of the 19th century and the earliest years of the 20th century.

He also toured with Fred Karno's Mumming Birds, an act made famous previously by the pairing of Charles Chaplin and Stan Laurel.

In these plays, also called "autos", or "acts", Vicente blended themes from Medieval morality plays with theatrical mumming and the liturgical dramas that were used in Corpus Christi festivals.

There were canals here, and a community of wealthy vodyanoi who passed with their jump-crawl, dressed in light waterproof mumming of suits, chewing the cheroots that humans smoked and the vodyanoi would eat.

The film was created from Chaplin's stage work from a play called Mumming Birds (aka A Night at an English Music Hall in the USA) with the Karno Company from London.

The "Sons and Daughters" of Christmas are Carol, Misrule, Gambol, Offering, Wassail, Mumming, New-Year's-Gift, Post and Pair, and even Minced-Pie and Baby-Cake.