interluder
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]interluder (plural interluders)
- (historical) A performer who performs in an interlude.
- 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Is't not a fine sight, to see all our children made interluders? do we pay our money for this? we send them to learn their grammar and their Terence, and they learn their play-books
References
[edit]- “interluder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.