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Fletcher

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Fletch·er  (flchr), John 1579-1625.
English playwright who collaborated with Francis Beaumont on romantic tragicomedies, including Philaster (1610) and The Maid's Tragedy (1611).
fletch·er  (flchr)
n.
One who makes arrows.
[Middle English fleccher, from Old French flechier, from fleche, arrow, of Germanic origin; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
fletcher [ˈflɛtʃə]
n
(Business / Professions) a person who makes arrows
[from Old French flechier, from fleche arrow; see flèche]
Fletcher [ˈflɛtʃə]
n
(Biographies / Fletcher, John (1579-1625) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist) John. 1579-1625, English Jacobean dramatist, noted for his romantic tragicomedies written in collaboration with Francis Beaumont, esp Philaster (1610) and The Maid's Tragedy (1611)
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Noun1.FletcherFletcher - prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)
John Fletcher
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fletcher
n → Pfeilmacher(in) m(f)


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Beaumont, however, was short-lived, and much the greater part of the fifty and more plays ultimately published under their joint names really belong to Fletcher alone or to Fletcher and other collaborators.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
For three thousand dollars Fletcher would build the very house Martin had pictured to Rose: a two-story one with four nice rooms and a bath upstairs, four rooms and a pantry downstairs, a floored garret, concrete cellar, an inviting fireplace and wide porches.
Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context
There was a story they liked to tell of a man who had done well for himself at Bradford, and had five shops of his own, and had come back after fifteen years and visited Ma Fletcher and given her a gold watch.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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