mummery in English

noun
1
a performance by mummers.
noun

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1. HEBREW HUMOR AND OTHER ESSAYS JOSEPH CHOTZNER But this was a tame mummery, compared with the grossness elsewhere allowed in Burlesquing religious ceremonies

2. In extraordinary cases, the poor savages called in the aid of their own doctors or Conjurors, who officiated with great noise and mummery, but with little benefit

3. As Mummery LJ so pithily and Appositely put it, the legislation is designed to allow an employee three months not three months less a day or two to make a complaint of unfair dismissal

4. At the time, the Brexiteer added: "We have got a golden opportunity to rebuild our industry that quite frankly has been taken away from us." But in a new interview with fellow former MEP turned commentator Martin Daubney, Mummery said: "As fishing goes, and if we want to hang on to the industry we have, because five years is a long time when