What is "mummers"

Usage examples of "mummers".

Men and women, clothed like mummers, danced under the November sky as if it had been May-day.

Bria turned her eyes once more to the costumed mummers performing before her.

The ghosts returned to the world of the dead, encouraged to leave by masked mummers whose job it was to scare away any of the stubborn spirits who tried to linger too long.

It was to do what the mummers in their skeleton masks did, scaring away the stubborn spirits, but Abuela was so much more effective at the task.

It was another half hour before the Christmas mummers and revelers had been sent on their way to serenade the rest of Paradise, and Elizabeth could collapse into the rocker before the hearth.

Up and down the streets they cavorted like third-rate mummers in search of an audience.