Hypertext Webster Gateway: "theatricals"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Theatricals \The*at"ric*als\, n. pl.
Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by
amateurs.
Such fashionable cant terms as `theatricals,' and
`musicals,' invented by the flippant Topham, still
survive among his confraternity of frivolity. --I.
Disraeli.
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