Definition of Puppet play

1. Noun. A show in which the actors are puppets.

Exact synonyms: Puppet Show
Generic synonyms: Show

Lexicographical Neighbors of Puppet Play

pupillometric
pupillometry
pupils
pupiparous
pupivorous
puplican
puplicans
puppadom
puppadum
puppadums
pupped
puppet
puppet-show
puppet government
puppet leader
puppet play (current term)
puppet ruler
puppet show
puppet state
puppeteer
puppeteered
puppeteering
puppeteers
puppetish
puppetlike
puppetman
puppetmaster
puppetmasters
puppetmen
puppetries

Literary usage of Puppet play

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian: The Titles of Such Works Now by Mary Augusta Scott (1895)
"Pepys refers to the 'puppet-play' of Patient Grissel in his Diary, Aug. 30,1667, and Butler, in Hudibras, couples Grissel with Job (pt. 1, c. 2, 772). ..."

2. The Dramatic Instinct in Education by Elnora Whitman Curtis (1914)
"MARIONETTE OR puppet play THE moving picture has been developed largely in the interest of adult audiences; the puppet or marionette play, so little known, ..."

3. The Dramatic Instinct in Education by Elnora Whitman Curtis (1914)
"X MARIONETTE OR puppet play THE moving picture has been developed largely in the interest of adult audiences; the puppet or marionette play, so little known ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1852)
"On the 9th of May, in the following year, we find him m Covent Garden "to sec an Italian puppet-play, that is within the ..."

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