charades
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.
Noun[edit]
charades
Noun[edit]
charades (uncountable)
- A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.
- 1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party:
- […] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]
Synonyms[edit]
- (game): acting charades, dumb charades (obsolete)
Translations[edit]
game
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