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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bahy-pley |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbaɪˌpleɪ |
Definition of byplay
- As in deed : noun achievement
- They rode too hard, they were too much in earnest, to take the time for byplay.
- Extract from : « 'Me-Smith' » by Caroline Lockhart
- Miss Leonora sat rather grimly looking on at all this byplay.
- Extract from : « The Perpetual Curate » by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
- He found time also, when the press of the season was over, for some byplay as a reviewer.
- Extract from : « Musical Criticisms » by Arthur Johnstone
- Some byplay among the gypsies supplies the humor of the situations.
- Extract from : « The Standard Light Operas » by George Upton
- Husband and wife "took turns" from the single cup; there was gayety and byplay.
- Extract from : « The Higher Court » by Mary Stewart Daggett
- Child's play—and byplay; yet not, perhaps, utterly irrelevant.
- Extract from : « The Great Miss Driver » by Anthony Hope
- For what is known is the other sort of reality, which is the byplay of the mind.
- Extract from : « The Concept of Nature » by Alfred North Whitehead
- This byplay between Ochiltree and the officer did not serve to make Harper any more easy in his mind.
- Extract from : « Motor Matt's Hard Luck » by Stanley R. Matthews
- A 'byplay' bearing the same name follows an elegy upon the death of an only son.
- Extract from : « The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century » by Leo Wiener
- So, there, by one byplay of the mind or another, it survived in changing raiment.
- Extract from : « The Divine Adventure etc. (Works vol. 4) » by Fiona Macleod
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