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In theatrical language, means a list of all the articles required by the flyman in the play produced. The flyman is the scene-shifter, or the “man in the flies.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.