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playlet

[ pley-lit ]

noun

  1. a short play.


playlet

/ ˈpleɪlɪt /

noun

  1. a short play
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of playlet1

First recorded in 1880–85; play + -let
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Example Sentences

My quaint New England spinster is gone and with her all the point of my playlet.

Recent poetry manifests the same tendency, and likewise the drama, particularly the closet drama and the playlet.

The literary playlet, so popular just now, uses the ghostly in many ways.

His mental playlet no longer closed with James Holden standing alone before the Bench.

A young fellow up in New Hampshire has written a Vaudeville playlet and sent it on for my approval.

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