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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

快速变装

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /kuài sù biàn zhuāng/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Quick-change/ˈkwɪk.tʃeɪndʒ/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这场表演需要演员进行快速变装。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Involving or requiring very rapid changes of clothes, costumes, or appearance, especially by a performer on stage.

    "The actress executed a breathtaking quick-change routine right behind the stage props."
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of changing clothes or transforming appearance extremely quickly.

    "She had only thirty seconds for a quick-change before her next entrance."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the adverbial use of 'quick' combined with 'change', originating in the late 19th century theatrical context. It initially described the rapid alteration of costume by a single actor to portray multiple characters on stage, subsequently expanding into general usage for any rapid modification or transition.

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