mummer vs playactor

mummer

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • Synonym of mum (“to act in pantomime or dumb show”) 

playactor

How often have the words mummer and playactor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )