mummery

[US]/'mʌm(ə)rɪ/
[UK]/ˈmʌməri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.cérémonies vides, pantomime;la performance d'un artiste mime.
Word Forms
Plurielmummerys

Example Sentences

If we lose the war, she ought to take up mummery, she has a gift for it.

Si nous perdons la guerre, elle devrait se mettre au momberie, elle a le don.

Papal priests pretended, by their senseless mummery, to convert the simple bread and wine into the actual "body and blood of Christ.

Les prêtres papaux prétendaient, par leur momberie insensée, convertir le pain et le vin simples en la "vraie chair et le vrai sang du Christ.

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