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Definition of Playacts
1. playact [v] - See also: playact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Playacts
Literary usage of Playacts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1810)
"All playacts must be paid in specie, or by an equivalent. The man that plays
beyond his income pawns his estate; the woman must find out something else to ..."
2. Random Notes and Rambling Recollections of Drydock, the Dock, Or Kelvindock by Alexander Thomson (1895)
"I'm tell'd," said Mr Walker, " he's a play-actor." "A what! " said Sir Archibald, "
a play-actor ? " " Aye," said Mr Walker, " he playacts in some ..."
3. The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1810)
"All playacts must be paid in specie, or by an equivalent. The man that plays
beyond his income pawns his estate; the woman must find out something else to ..."
4. Random Notes and Rambling Recollections of Drydock, the Dock, Or Kelvindock by Alexander Thomson (1895)
"I'm tell'd," said Mr Walker, " he's a play-actor." "A what! " said Sir Archibald, "
a play-actor ? " " Aye," said Mr Walker, " he playacts in some ..."
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