New American Oxford Dictionary
dumbshow
dumb show |ˈdəmˌSHō ˈdəmˌʃoʊ |(also dumb show ) ▶noun gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime: they demonstrated in dumbshow how the tea should be made. • a piece of dramatic mime: there were gags, spoofs, and dumbshows. • (esp. in English drama of the 16th and 17th centuries ) a part of a play acted in mime to summarize, supplement, or comment on the main action.
Oxford Dictionary
dumbshow
dumb |show |ˈdʌmʃəʊ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime: they demonstrated in dumbshow how the tea should be made. • [ count noun ] a piece of dramatic mime: there were gags, spoofs, and dumbshows. • [ count noun ] (especially in English drama of the 16th and 17th centuries ) a part of a play acted in mime to summarize, supplement, or comment on the main action.
Duden Dictionary
Dumbshow
Dumb show , Dumb Show Substantiv, feminin , die Dumb Show |ˈdʌmʃoʊ |die Dumbshow; Genitiv: der Dumbshow, Plural: die Dumbshows die Dumb Show; Genitiv: der Dumb Show, Dumb Shows englisch ; »stumme Schau « Pantomime im älteren englischen Drama, die vor der Aufführung die Handlung verdeutlichen sollte