glove puppet
Britishnoun
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Pili has thousands of glove puppet characters, a traditional part of Taiwanese street entertainment culture spinning colourful and highly stylised stories of heroic courage and romance, often with martial arts.
From Reuters ● Apr. 1, 2022
When Harry Corbett bought a bear glove puppet on Blackpool's North Pier in 1948 to entertain his children, he could surely not have realised he was teaming up with a future TV icon.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2018
The name — used by some of the ringleaders, may be an allusion to Basil Brush, a beloved glove puppet and mischievous red fox on a British children’s television series.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2016
Nothing that transformed the writer into a glove puppet of the manipulators of the media was acceptable to him.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013
Talking glove puppet takes over a man's personality - the pitching meeting for The Beaver must have been an interesting one...
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2011
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