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Definition of Rattigan
1. Noun. British playwright (1911-1977).
Generic synonyms: Dramatist, Playwright
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattigan
Literary usage of Rattigan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1902)
"Rattigan REILLY'S SHOOTING-PARTY BY FRANK SAVILE ' WHAT'S that ye have, ...
Did ye iver hear of Rattigan Reilly, him that had the forty-acre farm beside the ..."
2. Asian Review by East India Association (London, England) (1901)
"BY SIR WILLIAM HENRY Rattigan, KT, QC, LL.D. NOK if we turn from the history of
crime and punishment in England to that in India, is the gradual triumph of ..."
3. Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law by Society of Comparative Legislation, London (1906)
"HUGO GROTIUS.2 [Contributed by the late SIR WILLIAM Rattigan, KC] ' IT was in
the declining years of the second epoch into which the history of ..."
4. The Sham Squire: And the Informers of 1798. With a View of Their by William John Fitzpatrick (1866)
"Edward Rattigan. — General Lawless.—Lady Louisa Conolly.—Obduracy of Lord
Camden.—Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. SOME critics have been good enough to say ..."
5. The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register by Richard Phillips (1836)
"My mother calls me Jim Rattigan sure enough, but your honour may call me any thing
... Perhaps, Rattigan, as you seem puzzled with your new correspondence, ..."
6. The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship edited by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"Rattigan and Bircham accompanied me, and Myke Boyle followed with the tools. Mr.
Christopher Clinch and his friends were waiting for us; ..."
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