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Groundling   Listen
noun
Groundling  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
2.
A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches. "No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh."





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"Groundling" Quotes from Famous Books



... stillnesses, where Nature opens her arms and bewitchingly promises embraces in soft, unending, undulating vastnesses, where even the watching of a bird building its nest or brooding over its young, or some little groundling at its gracious play, seems to hold one charmed beyond description. It is, some may say, a nomadic life. Yes, it is a nomadic life. But how beautiful to those of us, and there are many, who love less the man-made comforts of our own small life than the entrancing ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle


Words linked to "Groundling" :   theatergoer, theatregoer, playgoer


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