"play-actor" meaning in All languages combined

See play-actor on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: play-actors [plural], playactor [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} play-actor (plural play-actors)
  1. An actor who performs on stage, especially one who is part of an acting troupe. Related terms: play-act, play-acting, play-actress
    Sense id: en-play-actor-en-noun--SUxTDxx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Suppose Bacon wrote the plays, and that there is no cipher in them ; suppose he threw them from him as \" trifles \" ; used them to eke out his small income by dividing the profits with the play-actor, Shakespeare, and thought no more about them, and cared nothing for them; and suppose they were gathered up from the actor's hands, with all their imperfections on their heads, and so jumbled together and printed by Heminge and Condell.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Douglas Hill, Torment, →ISBN:",
          "text": "'Sadly, the play-actor is running and hiding like a rabbit,' the man went on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, J. S. Fletcher, Scarhaven Keep: Detective Stories Collections:",
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