| 单词 | extra lady |
| 释义 | > as lemmasextra lady 2. A person engaged for a minor part, or to be present during a crowd scene, in a play, film, etc.; = supernumerary n. 2c. In full †extra lady, extra gentleman. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part ruffy1502 chorus1561 prologuer1570 prologue1579 turquet1625 woman actor1633 underpart1679 epilogist1716 prologist1716 epiloguizer1748 old man1762 prologuizer1762 buffo1764 extrac1777 jeune premier1817 primo buffo1826 character actor1841 utility man1849 deuteragonist1855 character comedian1857 bit playera1859 utility actor1860 serio-comic1866 juvenile lead1870 serio-comique1870 heavy1880 utility1885 thinker1886 onnagata1889 serio1889 juvenile1890 tritagonist1890 oyama1925 juve1935 c1777–8 in J. L. Hodgkinson & R. Pogson Early Manch. Theatre (1960) 82 Or more Extras [to be employed] than cannot be avoided—the Bill for them to be signed by the Prompter. 1880 D. K. Ranous Diary of Daly Débutante 16 May (1910) 185 Who should come to call on the Daly young ladies but one of the Philadelphia ‘extras’ at the theatre. 1888 G. Grossmith Society Clown vi. 114 The Marines [in ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’] were what is theatrically known as ‘extra-gentlemen’. They are not engaged to sing, and therefore do not hold such a good position as the chorus. 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 206/2 Scene rats (theatrical), extras engaged in ballets or pantomimes. 1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 28 Dec. 868/1 He..marched off..leaving the Republic and its army looking like the merest crowd of ‘extras’. 1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 4 July 13/2 ‘Extra’ Ladies and gentlemen (formerly called ‘supers’). 1916 ‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd 125 Extras may be depended upon for carrying gossip from one studio to another. 1916 R. E. Welsh A-B-C of Motion Pict. iv. 42 If the story has scenes calling for the use of hundreds of characters,..he will call for ‘extras’, who are engaged by the day. 1938 P. G. Wodehouse Summer Moonshine xx. 176 After that [I was] a movie extra. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Dec. 723/2 Is it that Mr. Crossman is so charmed by the performance of politics that he ignores the subject of the play, so busy in this particular book with the stars that he forgets the extras? 1964 C. Chaplin My Autobiogr. xvi. 272 One can..march twenty thousand extras into the Red Sea. 1964 C. Chaplin My Autobiogr. xviii. 317 I'd do anything—get a job—do extra work in films. < as lemmas |
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