mummer

A masked or costumed merrymaker, especially at a festival.

One who acts or plays in a pantomime.

An actor.

One who mums, or masks himself and makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a masked buffoon; specifically, in England, one of a company of persons who go from house to house at Christmas performing a kind of play, the subject being generally St. George and the Dragon, with sundry whimsical adjuncts.

One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.

A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.

An actor in a pantomime; one who communicates entirely through gesture and facial expression.

an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression