playlet

[ pley-lit ]

noun
  1. a short play.

Origin of playlet

1
First recorded in 1880–85; play + -let

Words Nearby playlet

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How to use playlet in a sentence

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

    Jane Journeys On | Ruth Comfort Mitchell
  • 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.

    The Fourth R | George Oliver Smith
  • A young fellow up in New Hampshire has written a Vaudeville playlet and sent it on for my approval.

    Continuous Vaudeville | Will M. Cressy

British Dictionary definitions for playlet

playlet

/ (ˈpleɪlɪt) /


noun
  1. a short play

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