play-actor

Definitions

An actor who performs on stage, especially one who is part of an acting troupe.

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Examples

“Suppose⟳ Bacon wrote the plays, and that there is no cipher in them ; suppose⟳ he threw them from him as " trifles " ; used them to eke out his small income by dividing the profits with the play-actor, Shakespeare, and thought no more about them, and cared nothing for them; and suppose⟳ they were gathered up from the actor's hands, with all their imperfections on their heads, and so jumbled together and printed by Heminge and Condell.”

“'Sadly, the play-actor is running and hiding like⟳ a rabbit,' the man went on.”

“Mr. Greyle, mister, says that he has no recollection whatever of meeting this play-actor person in America—he may have⟳ done and he mayn't.”

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