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dumb show

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dumb show
n.
1. A part of a play, especially in medieval and Renaissance drama, that is enacted without speaking.
2. Communication or acting by means of expressive gestures; pantomime.
dumb show
Noun
meaningful gestures without speech
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Noun1.dumb showdumb show - a performance using gestures and body movements without words
pantomime, mime
acting, performing, playacting, playing - the performance of a part or role in a drama
panto - an abbreviation of pantomime
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Cadwallader's eyes, diverted from the churchyard, saw a good deal of dumb show which was not so intelligible to her as she could have desired, and could not repress the question, "Who is Mr.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Sikes contented himself with tying an imaginary knot under his left ear, and jerking his head over on the right shoulder; a piece of dumb show which the Jew appeared to understand perfectly.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
By these means he in time reached the door, where he gave a great cough to attract the dwarf's attention and gain an opportunity of expressing in dumb show, the closest confidence and most inviolable secrecy.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
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