stagesen.
/steɪˈdʒiːz/ The ‘dialect’ peculiar to the stage.
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1876 Times 6 Jan. 11/3 Such phrases as..‘I would have speech with thee’..may..be described as accepted stagese.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Dec. 4 The rest mopping and mowing in what was not to be called English but rather stagese.
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