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Freytag

American  
[frahy-tahk] / ˈfraɪ tɑk /

noun

  1. Gustav 1816–95, German novelist, playwright, and journalist.


Freytag British  
/ ˈfraitaːk /

noun

  1. Gustav (ˈɡʊstaf). 1816–95, German novelist and dramatist; author of the comedy Die Journalisten (1853) and Soll und Haben (1855), a novel about German commercial life

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In ballet, Freytag said, the body is required to be in peak athletic condition.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2021

Several at the rally doubted those conclusions - Freytag called it all “scare tactics.”

From Washington Times Jul. 25, 2020

It's also the form of three-act structure in drama, initially formalized by Gustav Freytag in the 1800s.

From Scientific American Mar. 11, 2020

“Competition breeds innovation,” says Josh Swartz, the COO of Popdog and one of the “great minds” to whom Freytag alluded.

From The Verge Jan. 6, 2020

Two days later again, on August 24, Freytag had occupied Wormhoudt and Esquelbecque, capturing guns by the dozen, doing pretty well what he would with the French outposts, and quite surrounding the town of Bergues.

From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc

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