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charades
/ ʃəˈrɑːdz /
noun
- functioning as singular a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
Word History and Origins
Origin of charades1
Example Sentences
Hers was “a culture of silences, reticences, charades and circumlocutions.”
Just a few episodes before we were laughing and playing Charades, and now I have to knock her out.
“Suddenly Farrah and I are playing charades,” Letterman said at one point, half fond, half exasperated.
Under the same head as private theatricals may come dramatized charades and proverbs, so much in fashion at the present time.
The children were old enough now to take part in a form of entertainment that gave him and them especial pleasure-acting charades.
Then followed the holidays, with parties and dances and charades, and little plays, with the Warner and Twichell children.
There were pantomimes and charades, in which Mark Twain and his daughters always had star parts.
The guests were talking of having a few tableaux and charades, like some they had seen arranged by their older sisters.
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