| 单词 | prologue writer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprologue writer General attributive, similative, and objective, as prologue speaker, prologue writer, prologue race, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > prelude or prologue banec1440 bannsc1440 prologue1560 prelude1616 anteludea1687 1560 T. Ingelend Disobedient Child A ij b Here the Prologue speaker goeth out. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Prol. 33 Admit me Chorus to this Historie; Who Prologue-like, your humble patience pray, Gently to heare, kindly to iudge our Play. View more context for this quotation 1682 Lenten Prol. 1 in 3rd Coll. Poems (1689) 26/1 Our Prologue-Wit grows flat: the Naps worn off. 1713 A. Pope Corr. 30 Apr. (1956) I. 175 This was the case too of the prologue-writer. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber viii. 158 Wilks had many Excellencies; but if we leave Prologue-speaking out of the Number, he will still have enough to have made him a valuable Actor. 1762 D. Garrick in G. Colman Musical Lady Prol. sig. A4 We'll tie our Prologue-monger's hands. 1898 S. Evans Holy Graal 183 The Prologue-writer called himself Crestien. 1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-play 15 The Rumour of Overton, may be helped by the use of Rumour or Fame as a prologue-speaker in more sophisticated drama. 1996 Total Sport July 80/1 Boardman..had his first crack at the Tour de France in '94, having already won the prologue race. < as lemmas |
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