mummeries

English

Noun

mummeries

  1. plural of mummery
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
      Oh, Pip! thy wretched laugh, thy idle but unresting eye; all thy strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the melancholy ship, and mocked it!
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