khon - What does it mean?

Noun

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A Thai form of dance with music and narration.

*{{quote-news|year=2007|date=November 9|author=Jennifer Dunning|title=Hear Them Talk and See Them Dance, Then Watch Their Cultures Clash|work=New York Times citation

|passage=But he has found his perfect complement in Mr. Klunchun, a practitioner of khon , a form of classical Thai masked dance, who wanders serenely with Mr. Bel through a series of cultural collisions until the gentle cataclysm that suddenly and amusingly ends the conversation. }}