Definition of Tragedienne

1. Noun. An actress who specializes in tragic roles.

Generic synonyms: Actress

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

trafficker
traffickers
trafficking
trafficks
trafficky
trafficless
traffics
trafficwise
tragacanth
tragacantha
tragacanths
tragal
tragedian
tragedians
tragedie
tragedienne (current term)
tragediennes
tragedies
tragedious
tragedize
tragedized
tragedizes
tragedizing
tragedy
tragedy of the commons
tragematopolist
tragematopolists
tragi
tragic
tragic flaw

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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