单词 | triple bill |
释义 | > as lemmastriple bill c. A list of the items on a (theatre) programme; hence, the entertainment itself; a group of entertaining items. Originally U.S. Cf. quot. 1666 at sense 8a, and programme n. 3 (esp. quot. 1823 at sense 3). So double bill, a programme consisting of two plays, films, etc.; so triple bill; also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance > item in > bill of items bill1666 programme1799 double bill1895 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick i. 6 This part of the bill must have run something like this: ‘Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. Whaling Voyage by one Ishmael. Bloody Battle in Affghanistan.’ 1855 W. B. Wood Pers. Recoll. Stage 155 Warren had prepared..a strong bill..and announced the ‘Foundling of the Forest’, with the ‘Budget of Blunders’. 1875 Chicago Tribune 13 Sept. 7/3 Hooley's Theatre..California Minstrels, in a Bill of Rare Ethiopian Sketches. 1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism 147 Mr Thorne..was the first leading manager who ventured to put a play of Ibsen's into his evening bill. 1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 11 May I hope I have not conveyed an impression that the triple bill makes a bad evening's entertainment. 1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 423/1 Theatres widely adopted the ‘double bill policy’, which meant offering two picture dramas on a programme for a single admission. 1956 C. B. Purdom in Shaw's Lett. to Granville Barker 184 The dramatist was proposing that the piece should go with Galsworthy's Eldest Son into the bill at the Kingsway. 1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman ii. 73 It's a very long time since the name of Maisie Mountjoy Topped the bill in revue. 1962 Listener 27 Sept. 495/2 Apple jam by itself can be dull, but there are plenty of variations... For a triple bill there is apple, pear, and quince. < as lemmas |
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