Pantomime vs X - What's the difference?
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(historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
(UK) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, and fairy-tale plots.
Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime.
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* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=October 20
, author=Michael da Silva
, title=Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv
, work=BBC Sport
To gesture without speaking.
To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun pantomime
is pantomime (type of entertainment where players act out ideas without use of their voice).As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.pantomime
English
(wikipedia pantomime)Noun
(en noun)- [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.
- A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
- In pantomime , Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.
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