📚 Vaudevillian, adjective, noun.
❓ Definition: This definition is derivative of «vaudeville».
❗️ Examples:
1. He was the character actor, I was more the vaudevillian, pantomime comedian, and we both learnt a lot from each other.
2. Coming to us from Toronto, this ‘dark vaudevillian comedy’ tells the true story of a couple of Victorian girls who claimed they could communicate with the dead.
3. On Wednesday, TV Land is rerunning an episode of Fantasy Island with Phil Silvers as a has-been vaudevillian.
4. Also notable is Charlie Chaplin's elegiac 1952 talkie, Limelight, about the last days of an old vaudevillian.
5. My uncles were vaudevillians, and that's how I got started.
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