regie-book
/ɹeɪˈʒi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A director's notebook detailing the development of a production.
Example Sentences
- "The director's action plot, prompt-book or regie-book — whichever he calls it — shows diagrammatically the relative positions and movements of the performers throughout the play."
- "[…] he writes in the margins and blank pages all important statements made by the director about motivations and characterizations, about the cutting or adding of words or lines, the actors' comment on characters and dialogue — in short, the regie-book is a complete picture of what happened at rehearsals."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Regiebuch