stager en · NOUN
Etymology
From stage + -er.
Meanings
- An actor on the stage.
-
One who stages a theatrical performance.
Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints[…]
1994, Richard Beadle, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, page 271:
- One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
- A horse used in drawing a stagecoach.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stagers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |