first-nighter

noun

1. a member of an opening night audience, esp one who habitually attends first nights

Example Sentences

Here each notable 'first-nighter,' Critic, journalist, and writer, Sprinkles pepper on this club's especial oyster, And you hear a well-known jurist Or some literary purist Telling anecdotes unsuited to the cloister!

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A gentleman who looked like a habitual first-nighter.

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He was not a "first-nighter," but dropped in to see a new piece whenever he wanted copy for his feuilleton.

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The stage claimed a great part of my attention about this time, and I became an inveterate "first-nighter" in my holidays.

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She dresses � la mode, she is an habitu�e of the smart restaurants, an inveterate first-nighter.

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