An amusing or entertaining performance; a pageant, masque, masquerade, or the like. Obsolete.

historical. A spectacle or elaborate entertainment held between the courses of a banquet in the late Middle Ages.

(a) (in plural) society arts or accomplishments; (b) an amusing trick or pastime to entertain house guests.

A traditional act of begging for food or alms to the accompaniment of folk song, spec. during or at the end of a folk play, as a collection of…

In the æsthetic theory of Richard Wagner (1813–83), an ideal work of art in which drama, music, and other performing arts are integrated and each is…

With singular and plural agreement: the use of more than one medium, as a painting technique; (more generally) the use of a variety of media in any…