comedian
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Substantiivi
comedian englanniksi
An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
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Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
A person who performs in theatrical plays.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra) the quick comediansExtemporally will stage us, and presentOur Alexandrian revels;
1714, (w), ''The Wonder,'' London: E. Curll and A. Bettesworth, Preface,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004798029.0001.000
- I Don’t pretend to write a Preface, either to point out the Beauties, or to excuse the Errors, a judicious Reader may possibly discover in the following Scenes, but to give those excellent Comedians their Due, to whom, in some Measure the best Dramatick Writers are oblig’d.
(quote-book)|title=The Connaisseur|location=London|publisher=R. Baldwin|volume=1|page=1|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004813445.0001.001
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)
(RQ:Sidney Apologie for Poetrie)
(RQ:Milton Areopagitica)
1783, (w), ''Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres,'' London: Whitestone ''et al.,'' Volume 3, Lecture(nbs)47, p.(nbs)377,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004786433.0001.003
- (..) the Dramatic Author, in whom the French glory most, and whom they justly place at the head of all their Comedians, is, the famous (w).
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