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Definition of Sceneshifter
1. Noun. A stagehand responsible for moving scenery.
Definition of Sceneshifter
1. n. One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
Definition of Sceneshifter
1. Noun. One who moves the scenes in a theatre; a sceneman. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sceneshifter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sceneshifter
Literary usage of Sceneshifter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"SCOTT, SIR WALTER, 1814-23, The Drama. Everybody has his own theatre, in which
he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, ..."
2. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"SCOTT, SIB WALTER, 1814-23, The Drama. Everybody has his own theatre, in which
he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1888)
"... Midsummer Night's Dream” in October 1853, he, too, indulged greatly in these
harmonious changes of scene in which the sceneshifter's personality ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1884)
"... of round and that the garish paint has been rubbed off by the fingers of the
sceneshifter, where is your sense then of the reality of the situation? ..."
5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1917)
"The stupid and besotted sceneshifter, Spangler (p. 374), would have followed the
actor he worshipped anywhere, and it is almost certain that his dull brain ..."
6. Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D.: Constituting by James Waddel Alexander (1860)
"There is indeed (though much poetry) no trace of religion, except the religion
of a babe or a bell-ringer, a sceneshifter or a verger. ..."
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