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Play-actor

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Noun
  1. 1
    An actor who performs on stage, especially one who is part of an acting troupe.

    "Suppose Bacon wrote the plays, and that there is no cipher in them ; suppose he threw them from him as " trifles " ; used them to eke out his small income by dividing the profits with the play-actor, Shakespeare, and thought no more about them, and cared nothing for them; and suppose they were gathered up from the actor's hands, with all their imperfections on their heads, and so jumbled together and printed by Heminge and Condell."

  2. 2
    an actor who travels around the country presenting plays wordnet

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