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Definition of Performers
1. performer [n] - See also: performer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Performers
Literary usage of Performers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1889)
"Extra Performers. For every Greek play a chorus was provided by the ... But in
most plays a certain number of additional performers were required. ..."
2. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1898)
"Extra Performers. For every Greek play a chorus was provided by the ... But in
most plays a certain number of additional performers were required. ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"The first of these is that of the minstrels, a heterogeneous class of composers
and performers, drawn from several sources. The theatrical history of the ..."
4. The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1908)
"CHAPTER XX SERPENT-CHARMERS, AND Performers OF LEGERDEMAIN TRICKS, ETC. I MANY
modern writers upon Egypt have given surprising : accounts of a class of men ..."
5. The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt (1859)
"Allman the booksellers, died Lewis, the comedian, one of the most delightful
performers of his class, and famous to the last for his invincible airiness and ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"The wind-instruments are supplied by bellows and operated by the cylinder-pegs
which open and Tutus, to the exclusion of amateur or mediocre performers, ..."
7. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"... performers usually carried to and fro every evening. Nicholas would insist
upon carrying the basket, ..."
8. The Bookman (1915)
"... the other performers and to the spectators. Perhaps it is not too much to
assert that the puppet-show is not the proper place for pantomime. ..."
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