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mummery的意思

mummery

基本解释

n. 虚礼,哑剧;哑剧演员的表演

英文词源

mummery (n.)
1520s, "performance of mumming," from Old French mommerie, from momer (see mummer). Transferred sense of "ridiculous ceremony or ritual" is from 1540s.