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Definition of Tragedienne
1. Noun. An actress who specializes in tragic roles.
Definition of Tragedienne
1. Noun. A female tragedian; a woman who acts in tragic drama. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative form of tragedienne) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tragedienne
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tragedienne
Literary usage of Tragedienne
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"Zoe Akins THE tragedienne A storm is riding on the tide; Grey is the day and grey
the tide, Far-off the sea-gulls wheel and cry— A ..."
2. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"The Severe Training of Rachel, the tragedienne.—A Woman's Criticism of Rachel.—Her
Wonderful Powers, her Serpent-like Movements, her Thrilling Intensity. ..."
3. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"The Severe Training of Rachel, the tragedienne.—A Woman's Criticism of Rachel.—Her
Wonderful Powers, her Serpent-like Movements, her Thrilling Intensity. ..."
4. Dramatic Criticism by James Thomas Grein (1902)
"REJANE—tragedienne. June 30, 1901. I. Paul Hervieu occupies a unique position in
the French world of letters. As a novelist and as a dramatist he stands on ..."
5. Fifty Years of an Actors̓ Life by John Coleman (1904)
"... accompany La Grande Charlotte to Hawthornden — A Maternal Admonition at
Parting — The Great tragedienne goes to Glasgow, and I am left Lamenting. ..."
6. Women of History: The Lives of Women who in All Ages, All Lands and in All by Willis John Abbot (1913)
"... CUSHMAN (1816-1876) AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS tragedienne IN the annals of the
American stage the name of Charlotte Cushman stands unique and alone. ..."
7. The Temperaments: Or, The Varieties of Physical Constitution in Man by Daniel Harrison Jacques (1878)
"I.—THE GREAT tragedienne (Fig. 93). ANY careful reader of the foregoing chapters,
having before him a head and face like the one here represented, ..."
8. The Temperaments: Or, The Varieties of Physical Constitution in Man by Daniel Harrison Jacques (1904)
"I.—THE GREAT tragedienne (Fig. 93). ANY careful reader of the foregoing chapters,
having before him a head and face like the one here represented, ..."
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