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shadow play
noun
- a show in which shadows of puppets, flat figures, or live actors are projected onto a lighted screen.
shadow play
noun
- a theatrical entertainment using shadows thrown by puppets or actors onto a lighted screen
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shadow play1
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Example Sentences
In skilfully printed papers of the sort the design often has the effect of a mere shadow-play of form.
The wajang beber is of very early origin and is a shadow play, shadows of marionettes being shown through a white cloth.
The servant came with tea, and drew down the upper blinds, shutting out that mocking shadow-play at which Saxham had been staring.
Was it a moving herd, a shifting mist, a shadow-play between the night and dawn?
The Indian thinks of this world as a circular and unending journey, an ocean without shore, a shadow play without even a plot.
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