Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scene-shifter: so called in contempt (in the passage quoted, with a punning allusion to the name of Shakspere).
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Examples
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[2] while 'shake-scene' is a pun or play on words on
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“beautified with our feathers, that supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the rest of you, and, being an absolute Johannes factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only shake-scene in the country.”
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901
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