PUPPETRY


Meaning of PUPPETRY in English

ˈpəpə̇trē, -ri noun

( -es )

Etymology: puppet + -ry

1. archaic : mummery 2

the low puppetry of thrones — S.T.Coleridge

2. : the production or creation of puppets or puppet shows

this yearbook … is one of the outstanding contributions to puppetry — Quarterly Journal of Speech

a thriving center of puppetry — Barry Carman

3. : the creation or presence in a literary work of an inadequately motivated character or group of characters

a great modern writer … capable in activity of presenting thoughtful women, thinking men, groaned over his puppetry , that he dared not animate them — George Meredith

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.