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Definition of Impersonators
1. impersonator [n] - See also: impersonator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impersonators
Literary usage of Impersonators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seen on the Stage by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (1920)
"He pointed out the fact that the ablest impersonators seldom make good actors
and that great actors seldom make more than passable impersonators. ..."
2. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society edited by Charles William Sutton (1898)
"Their impersonators took part in reproductive pageants, and in the mysteries of
Samothrace.§ Dionysus classes them with the Roman Penates, whose statues, ..."
3. The Smile: If You Can Do Nothing Else, You Can Smile, by Samuel Silas Curry (1915)
"impersonators and reciters of all sorts, extravagant and untruthful interpreters,
have almost ruined the noble art. Charlotte Cushman and others gave, ..."
4. Smiling 'round the World by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"... of the greatest impersonators of women in Japan. There are no actresses, all
the parts being assumed by men. This particular actor is so conscientious ..."
5. In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoruby Mark Howard Nornes, Mamoru Makino, Aaron Gerow by Mark Howard Nornes, Mamoru Makino, Aaron Gerow (2001)
"The reformers succeeded in getting rid of the female impersonators and introducing
Western film techniques but they were unable to eliminate the benshi. ..."
6. Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity by Lewis Bayles Paton (1921)
"At Roman funerals impersonators were chosen to represent the ancestors. They wore
their death-masks that were preserved in the family atrium, were dressed ..."
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