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Definition of Playbills
1. playbill [n] - See also: playbill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Playbills
Literary usage of Playbills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Notes and Queries by John Malcolm Bulloch (1890)
"playbills of Thirty-two of Shake- spear's Plays, and Five Plays relating to ...
playbills Illustrating the Progress of Music on the British Stage (from the ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... all manner of Billes for players (ib. ii. 477, and Notes and Queries, 2nd ser.
xii. 4). This is the earliest entry of any playbills in the Registers. ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"She was not long off the stage, and in 1740 the playbills announced the first
appearance of Miss Woffington in England. She drew large houses, ..."
4. Memories Grave and Gay by Florence Howe Hall (1918)
"IX EDWIN BOOTH AND CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN Why They Did Not Act My Mother's
Play, "Hippolytus."—A Bundle of Old playbills.—Letters from Edwin and Mary Booth. ..."
5. Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society (1901)
"D. Minutes of the November Meeting, ----- 21 The Early Lancaster playbills and
Playhouses, ... playbills ..."
6. Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our social history in the reign of by Walter Thornbury, George Walter Thornbury (1856)
"playbills Days of Performance. — Actresses. — The Gallant on the Stage. — The
Fop and the Critic. — Note Takers. — The Pit. — Furniture of the Stage. ..."
7. Scottish Notes and Queries by John Malcolm Bulloch (1890)
"playbills of Thirty-two of Shake- spear's Plays, and Five Plays relating to ...
playbills Illustrating the Progress of Music on the British Stage (from the ..."
8. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... all manner of Billes for players (ib. ii. 477, and Notes and Queries, 2nd ser.
xii. 4). This is the earliest entry of any playbills in the Registers. ..."
9. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"She was not long off the stage, and in 1740 the playbills announced the first
appearance of Miss Woffington in England. She drew large houses, ..."
10. Memories Grave and Gay by Florence Howe Hall (1918)
"IX EDWIN BOOTH AND CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN Why They Did Not Act My Mother's
Play, "Hippolytus."—A Bundle of Old playbills.—Letters from Edwin and Mary Booth. ..."
11. Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society (1901)
"D. Minutes of the November Meeting, ----- 21 The Early Lancaster playbills and
Playhouses, ... playbills ..."
12. Shakspere's England; or, Sketches of our social history in the reign of by Walter Thornbury, George Walter Thornbury (1856)
"playbills Days of Performance. — Actresses. — The Gallant on the Stage. — The
Fop and the Critic. — Note Takers. — The Pit. — Furniture of the Stage. ..."
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