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Groundling   /grˈaʊndlɪŋ/   Listen
Groundling

noun
1.
In Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section.





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"Groundling" Quotes from Famous Books



... inclination, Miss Johnson took to the public platform for a living, and certainly justified her choice of a vocation by her admirable performances. They were not sensational, and therefore not over-attractive to the groundling; but to discerners, who thought highly of her art, they seemed the perfection of monologue, graced by a musical voice, and by gesture at once simple ...
— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson


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


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