mimicries

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of mimicry.
  mimicry

  noun

  the act, practice, or art of mimicking.

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mimicries

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

In the trickeries and mimicries of court life Bunsen was no adept, and nothing was easier than to outbid him in the price that is paid for royal favors.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

The result has not been, as is usual in such alien mimicries, a mere success of curiosity.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

Oh, no, they are very amusing, with their mimicries of grown people, and mock solemnities.

From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald

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