spear-carrier
Example Sentences
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He secured a job with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford, where his first recorded role was as a spear carrier in a 1954 production of Othello.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2020
The Mets, it seems, have traded away a fellow who went from a hard-nosed, error-prone spear carrier into a rough approximation of George Brett.
From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2016
Mr. Neumann had a small part — “a spear carrier or something,” his son said — and from then on was hooked on the theater.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2012
Within six weeks I was performing as a spear carrier in 'Saint Joan' with Siobhan McKenna and rehearsing 'Hamlet.'
From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2011
Stopping a super, he asked for Miss Luft’s dressing room; the super, wearing makeup and the costume of an Egyptian spear carrier, pointed.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
