Adelphi
/əˈdɛlfi/noun
Attributive Designating plays performed at or in a style characteristic of the Adelphi Theatre in London, especially (in early use, chiefly in Adelphi screamer) a type of broad comedy or farce; (later) a type of melodrama which was prevalent in the last decades of the 19th cent., typically with the dialogue written in a literary rather than natural, conversational style.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Edinburgh Literary Journal. From Adelphi, the name of a London theatre in the vicinity of, and named after, a group of neoclassical terrace houses between the Strand and the Thames, designed by the Adam brothers from ancient Greek ἀδελϕοί, plural of ἀδελϕός brother.
- rub shoulders with
- rub someone (or rub someone up) the wrong way
- rub someone out
- rub something down
- rub something out
- rubster
- rubstone
- rub-up
- rubus
- ruby
- ruby anniversary
- ruby-back
- ruby-backed
- ruby blende
- ruby copper
- ruby coral
- ruby-crested
- ruby-crowned
- ruby-crowned kinglet
- ruby-crowned wren
- rubydazzler
- ruby glass
- ruby-headed
- ruby hole
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