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单词 fit-up company
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fit-up company
A stage or other theatrical accessory that can be fitted up for the occasion. Hence (in full fit-up company), a travelling theatrical company which carries makeshift scenery and properties that can be fitted up for the occasion.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > that can be fitted up
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1864 J. G. Bertram Glimpses Real Life xxxiv. 333 The theatre was what is called ‘a fit-up’, erected in the large room at..a small hotel of the town.
1883 Referee 22 July 7/3 The ‘fit-up towns’..are the towns which do not boast a theatre, [etc.].
1885 J. K. Jerome On Stage v He had been a member of a fit-up company that travelled with a complete Shaksperian répertoire and four set scenes.
1885 J. K. Jerome On Stage xvii However, I never did join a booth... The nearest I approached to anything of the kind was this fit-up.
1899 Daily News 18 July 3/6 St. George's-hall..is a much more suitable place for operatic representation than the ‘fit-up’ in the Royal Academy concert room.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 10/1 His early, struggling, happy days with his father when they took the road with a little fit-up show. ‘Fit-up, indeed!’ he used to say with a laugh; ‘why, our whole fit-up went into a couple of brown-paper parcels!’
1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz vi. 135 He spent a long time playing in fit-up shows, with a speaking part thrown in gratis.
1957 J. Osborne Entertainer x. 75 I was..on the Irish fit-ups.
1970 Daily Tel. 14 Feb. 12 Today there are some 40 off-Broadway houses. You might add another 40 off-off-Broadway clubs and fit-ups.
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