Definition of "mummers" [mummers]

• Plural form of mummer. (noun)

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• "She heard the bell at the theatre calling the mummers to the performance, and she saw, passing opposite, men with white faces and women in faded gowns going in at the stage-door."
• "He spends all his time in palaces; he will want to come home to a house which feels like a home and not a great cathedral filled by a band of mummers, which is what the royal palaces are like."
• "The mummers is a year long tradition that generates over nine million dollars for the local economy."