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(theater) A performance during which the players do not speak; mime. / The use of gesture in an attempt to convey meaning.

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dumb show

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Source Word

dumb show

Noun

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

（劇）セリフを発さず、身体表現や身振りによって意味を伝える演技（無言劇、ミュートパフォーマンス）

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The troupe closed the evening with a moving dumb show that left the audience speechless.

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劇団は感動的な無言劇でその夜を締めくくり、観客を言葉を失わせた。

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(theater) A performance during which the players do not speak; mime.

O it offends mee to the Soule, to ſee a robuſtious Pery-wig-pated Fellow, teare a Paſſion to tatters, to verie ragges, to ſplit the eares of the Groundlings: who (for the moſt part) are capeable of nothing, but inexplicable dumbe ſhewes, & noiſe: […]

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