| Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary 1,809,734,838 visitors served. |
|
Dictionary/ thesaurus | Medical dictionary | Legal dictionary | Financial dictionary | Acronyms | Idioms | Encyclopedia | Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
usher |
Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Legal, Wikipedia, Hutchinson | 0.03 sec. |
|
usher 1. a person who acts as doorkeeper, esp in a court of law 2. (in England) a minor official charged with maintaining order in a court of law 3. Brit obsolete a teacher How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
|
| ? Mentioned in | ? References in periodicals archive | |
|---|---|---|
Now dependent on the usherette at his right-hand side, the struck-down, crawling Rev. Picture usherettes on bicycles escorting you to your spot; carhops bringing food and baby-bottle warmers and cleaning your windshield; the Copiague, New York, drive-in held over twenty-five hundred cars and included a shuttle train that ferried customers to various areas on the twenty-eight-acre site. On the wall, we see a chart setting out the contents of the bit of imaginary film being tangentially represented by the real one we've been watching - something to do with a theater usherette who sneaks out of a performance of Shakespeare for a quick drink at a pub, interspersed with seemingly unrelated scenes (a flashback, perhaps, or simply a separate narrative line whose connection would have been clarified later on in the story) about a couple on a beach, first struggling, then kissing. |
| Encyclopedia |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Free toolbar & extensions |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup | Partner with us |
|---|