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draˈmaticle, -icule
Also erron. -ucle.
[f. L. drāma, drāmat- with dim. suffix.]
A miniature or insignificant drama.
[1792T. Twining Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 168 His two printed dialogues, or dramacles.] 1813Examiner 15 Mar. 171/1 This admired dramatucle (if we may be allowed such a diminutive). 1851Beddoes' Poems Mem. 15 ‘Olympian Revels,’ and other dramaticles published in the ‘London Magazine’ of 1823. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. 252 Court⁓shows, dramaticules, transparencies. 1967Listener 3 Aug. 148/1 His [sc. Beckett's] new play, Come and Go, can spare only 121 words of dialogue for its three women moving through their grim permutation-game, and so Beckett has the grace to call it ‘a Dramaticule’. |