Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dramatic author; a playwright. See the quotation under stager, 1.

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  • Here, thinking of quite other things, I had stumbled on the solution, or perhaps I should rather say (in stagewright phrase) the Curtain or final Tableau of a story conceived long before on the moors between Pitlochry and

    Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • I hastened to a masquerade warehouse, where, with the help of an ingenious stagewright artificer, I disguised myself into a most thorough-paced-looking cut - throat, and then waited the return of my friend Beppo with the most perfect confidence. "

    My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I hastened to a masquerade warehouse, where, with the help of an ingenious stagewright artificer, I disguised myself into a most thorough-paced-looking cut-throat, and then waited the return of my friend Beppo with the most perfect confidence. "

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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