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Drama with masks
Answer for the clue "Drama with masks ", 3 letters:
noh
Alternative clues for the word noh
Word definitions for noh in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
traditional Japanese masked drama, 1871, from Japanese, literally "ability, talent, function." Dramatic form also known as nogaku, with gaku "music."
Usage examples of noh.
Japanese woman on a bare stage, gesturing in the stylized manner of Noh drama, and it ends seventy-five minutes later with a naked man, emaciated and aphasic, trying desperately to tell us something.
Because Noh is a very ancient art that has always been patronized by the Imperial court, dancers in Gion consider their art superior to the school of dance practiced in the Ponto-cho district across the river, which derives from Kabuki.
And no doubt each cast included the same character types, as in Noh drama or a puppet play.
The alien could choose INFORMATION, and the subgrid could put them into planetary history, where Noh could be well prepared.