DH sign +pantomime horse

[justcarol67]

bboyminn:
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> Dating back to ancient Greece, Pantomime has never been silent. It was often preformed poetry accompanied by music, usually flute. (see Wikipedia for history and details)


Carol responds:

I believe that pantomime was roman rather than Greek, if it matters. The pantomime itself was a dance accompanied with music or narrative. Since the dancer himself didn't speak, I would disagree. The pantomime was silent even though the accompaniment wasn't. 

The word can and does sometimes apply, at least in the U.S., to a story told in mime, through movement and facial expression only. As I said, Charades as we played it when I was a kid was done entirely in pantomime.

Carol, still thinking about the pantomime horses (no horse costume involved) that she encountered in Monty Python