Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a theater, a person who superintends the making, storage, and use of stage properties; a head property-man.
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Examples
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It will be perceived that the property-master of the theatre is here required to produce quite a library of stage-books.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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It is now flung away, now torn, now struck to earth; the property-master, it may be, watching its fate from the side-wings -- anxious not so much because of its contents or intrinsic value, as on account of the gaudy cover his art has supplied it with, and the pains he must take to repair any injuries it may receive in the course of the performance.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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