Definition of "pantomimes" [pantomimes]

• Plural form of pantomime. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pantomime. (verb)

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• "Theatre, he besought liberty to exhibit and perform "all such entertainments of music and action as were commonly called pantomimes and ballets, together with operatic or musical pieces, accompanied with dialogue in the ordinary mode of dramatic representations," subject, at all times, to the control and restraint of the Lord"
• "The enlightened Lesbonax of Mytilene called pantomimes"
• "Another set of players were called pantomimes: these were, at least, so far preferable to the former, that they gave no offence to the ears."