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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Theatricals

· The·at·ric·als · IPA
01 n. pl. Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs.
  1. 1.
    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.