(n.) One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.
Example Sentences:
(1) He managed to stay for five years, founded The Mummers, the first university drama group to admit women, and edited Granta.
Mummery
Definition:
(n.) Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.
(n.) Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies.
Example Sentences:
(1) This avascular space permit to made there surgically procedures such Lockart-Mummery to attach rectum to sacrum.
(2) In his 1934 work English Journey, Priestley spoke of three Englands: the so-called "real, enduring England", which spoke to Boyle's bucolic "Jerusalem" opening with its maypoles and cricket, maids and mummery.
(3) It’s likely over that period that interest rates are going to go up.” He acknowledges that when the mortgage ends, “I’d be 88”, but says: “That [his age] was not an issue.” Mummery adds: “I could have gone for a shorter period and paid more per month.
(4) Glyn Mummery, a partner at FRP Advisory, which helps with financial restructuring, said the multi-currency financial arrangements in place at the Gherkin were not uncommon in big London property deals and there could be further casualties.
(5) A variant of the Lockhart Mummery operation for complete rectal prolapse in children is described.
(6) In concert with Jeb’s invocation of the familiar Republican mummery about the tentacles of Iranian influence in the Middle East, you’re supposed to hear the Carter lost us Iran!
(7) Though less extensive treatment, such as submucosal injection of sclerosing agents, is recommended to be the first method of choice because pathoanatomically the prolapse in infancy is frequently a prolapse of the mucosa, in patients where this therapy does not succeed, a Lockhart-Mummery operation may be an alternative.
(8) Mummery says the idea of an initial five-year fix appealed.
(9) A variant of Lockhart-Mummery's technique is proposed.
(10) (Leigh, Greater Manchester) Mrs Mary Lou Lockhart-Mummery.
(11) Intractable cases respond favorably to the Lockhart-Mummery procedure, a simple operation which guarantees good results.
(12) In our patients, a Lockhart-Mummery operation was used successfully in all but one patient.
(13) Yet, despite all the medieval mummery and consecrated oil of the Westminster Abbey service, it would be wrong to regard June 1953 as a moment of backward-looking indulgence, an Establishment answer to the modernism of the Festival of Britain.
(14) Donald Mummery, 77, is living proof that older people can still get mortgages.
(15) Glyn Mummery, partner in restructuring firm FRP Advisory HMV's collapse is symptomatic of the worsening malaise in large parts of the traditional high street.
(16) I decided to go straight to the building society itself,” says Mummery, a retired engineer.
(17) "This has been the worst Christmas period on the high street in living memory," said Glyn Mummery at the insolvency specialist FRP Advisory.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Mummery and his wife Eunice.