Definition of Stagery

1. n. Exhibition on the stage.

Definition of Stagery

1. Noun. (obsolete) Exhibition on the stage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stagery

1. theatrical contrivances [n STAGERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagery

stagehands
stagehouse
stagehouses
stageless
stagelike
stagely
stagemanship
stageplay
stageplayer
stageplayers
stageplaying
stageplays
stager
stageries
stagers
stagery (current term)
stages
stages of the game
stagescape
stagescapes
stageside
stagestruck
stagestruckness
stagette
stagettes
stagewear
stagewide
stagey
stagflation
stagflationary

Literary usage of Stagery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Walk in Hellas: Or, The Old in the New by Denton Jaques Snider (1882)
"To us Nature is not alive as it was to the old Greeks; it is now a sort of stage; we call it appearance, scenery, that is, stagery, some pageant gotten up ..."

2. The Tragedie of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare (2001)
"RC RHODES (stagery of Sh., p. 88) compares, for this form of stage-direction, ... I retain the word "stagery," which Milton used in a cognate but slightly ..."

3. Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget, Samuel Romilly Roget (1879)
"... stagery,^«* de théâtre; acting; gesture &c. 550; impersonation &c. 554; stage business, gag, buffoonery. theatre ; play-, opera-house ; house ; music ..."

4. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"... was originally stagery, which in times when the g and the y were used interchangeably, was often spelt ..."

5. French Literature of To-day: A Study of the Principal Romancers and Essayists by Yetta Blaze de Bury (1898)
"... is merely playing a ' fifth act' to her own self, and working herself up to factitious feeling, which is the essence of ' stagery. ..."

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