| 词汇 | meriden audience |
| 词源 | Meriden audience. A humorous theaterical term for a very small audience. It is said to have originated with a performance of Countess Helena Modjeska’s traveling troupe, starring Julia Marlowe, in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1888. Miss Marlowe played to an audience of two, the local mayor and a little boy. |
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