[f. STAGE sb. + -ERY.] Exhibition on the stage; stage arrangements or contrivances.

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1642.  Milton, Apol. Smect., 9. [He] likening those grave controversies to a piece of Stagery, or Scene-worke where his owne Remonstrant whether in Buskin or Sock must of all right be counted the chiefe Player.

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1886.  Hardy, Mayor Casterbr., I. i. 22. To watch it was like looking at some grand feat of stagery from a darkened auditorium.

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