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Playbill

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Play·bill  (plbl)
A trademark used for a program of a theatrical performance.

play·bill  (plbl)
n.
A poster announcing a theatrical performance.

playbill
Noun
a poster or bill advertising a play
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Noun1.playbill - a theatrical program; "he couldn't find her name on the playbill"
bill - a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
programme, program - an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event; "you can't tell the players without a program"


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But the populace, seeing in that title an allusion damaging to Barbicane's project, broke into the auditorium, smashed the benches, and compelled the unlucky director to alter his playbill.
I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled playbill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles.
"Thank you," she said, her little hand in its long glove taking the playbill Vronsky picked up, and suddenly at that instant her lovely face quivered.
 
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