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Meanings of histrion in English

Portuguese
actor
Catalan
actor
Spanish
actor

A theatrical performer.

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        Usage of histrion in English
        1
        What would Athenæus say if he knew that it was through him alone that the name of this histrion had come down to us?
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
        2
        The instrument on which we histrions play is that strange thing, the human heart.
        Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida / Selected from the Works of Ou...