mimicry
noun
the act, practice, or art of mimicking.
mimicries
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pluralof mimicry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In private, her character is less appalling, though she is noted for her impudent mimicries of Moran & Mack, Maurice Chevalier, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Groucho Marx.
From Time Magazine Archive
But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here, no doubt, we see quaint mimicries of the mother's fashion of control, but they seem, too, to indicate a movement in the direction of self-control.
From Children's Ways by James Sully
The last evening spent by Hetty in the drawing-room at the Hall was that one on which she had entertained the company with her mimicries.
From Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn by Rosa Mulholland
And there seemed to resound in her mind echoes of Captain Ross's voice at the Honeycomb—or were they echoes of Mrs. Newton's mimicries of Captain Ross?
From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck
