Noah Webster
Mummer
MUM'MER, noun One who masks himself and makes diversion in disguise; originally, one who made sport by gestures without speaking.
Jugglers and dancers, anticks, mummers.
MUM'MERY, noun
1. Masking; sport; diversion; frolicking in masks; low contemptible amusement; buffoonery.
Your fathers
Disdained the mummery of foreign strollers.
2. Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade to delude vulgar minds.