glove puppet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Other days I think of the smiling glove puppet — which I still have, flattened in my scrapbook — and I feel hopeful.
From Washington Post
He draws a glove puppet for the soul.
From The Guardian
The Sooty glove puppet had been expected to sell for anything up to £3,000 and auctioneers said there had been "interest from around the world".
From BBC
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
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