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re-enactor, n.
Brit. |ˌriːɪnˈaktə|, U.S. |ˌriəˈnæktər|, |ˌriəˈnækdər|
[‹ re-enact v. + -or suffix, probably after enactor n. and actor n. Compare later re-enacter n.]
A person who re-enacts something; (now) esp. a person who (as part of a group) re-enacts historical events (usually battles) in period costume, as a pastime. Cf re-enactment society n. at re-enact v. Additions.
1837H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. ii. v. 131 The masters themselves were the repealers and re-enactors of these laws. a1901W. Stubbs Hist. Introd. Rolls Series (1902) i. 24 This canon..is an extract from penitentials of much earlier date, and cannot with any certainty be assigned to him as its re-enactor. 1973Compar. Lit. 25 248 The dreamer is cast..as a fourteenth-century reenactor of the plight of Aeneas stranded on Libyan shores. 1980Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Mag. section) 12 ‘Totally lax,’ complained one Union reenactor. ‘You can't get into the feel of it this year.’ 2001Hist. Today May 36/2 A Second World War re-enactor sitting in a trench at the same event commented that ‘the majority of the fighting was done by ordinary men; we're not glory boys.’ |