Lexicographical Neighbors of Playactors
Literary usage of Playactors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Life of the Chinese: With Some Account of the Religious, Governmental by Justus Doolittle (1865)
"Playacting: An Emperor of the Tang Dynasty one of the Gods worshiped by
playactors.—Bands of Actors numerous.—Female Characters personated by Boys. ..."
2. Social life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Playacting: An Emperor of the Tang Dynasty one of the Gods worshiped by
playactors.—Bands of Actors numerous.—Female Characters personated by Boys. ..."
3. Peg Woffington: Christie Johnstone, and Other Stories by Charles Reade (1869)
"Now, why do they go and run playactors down so 1 " "But I should have been
inclined, even before your arrival, to waive that right, out of regard for my own ..."
4. The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1883)
"... until the two women servants had repaired thither, under false pretences, to
see the playactors ; and having compared notes with them in the passage, ..."
5. Social Life of the Chinese: With Some Account of the Religious, Governmental by Justus Doolittle (1865)
"Playacting: An Emperor of the Tang Dynasty one of the Gods worshiped by
playactors.—Bands of Actors numerous.—Female Characters personated by Boys. ..."
6. Social life of the Chinese by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Playacting: An Emperor of the Tang Dynasty one of the Gods worshiped by
playactors.—Bands of Actors numerous.—Female Characters personated by Boys. ..."
7. Peg Woffington: Christie Johnstone, and Other Stories by Charles Reade (1869)
"Now, why do they go and run playactors down so 1 " "But I should have been
inclined, even before your arrival, to waive that right, out of regard for my own ..."
8. The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1883)
"... until the two women servants had repaired thither, under false pretences, to
see the playactors ; and having compared notes with them in the passage, ..."
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