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[Points]
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1. [en] Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.
2. [en] Exaggerated speech or gestures used for emphasis during a performance.
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1977 | journal=Drama: The quarterly theatre review | issue=124-131 | page=16
|passage=In my concentrated week at Stratford I found that, although as a
theatregoer for decades I could not help marking what the old actors called
'POINTS' now and again, [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2014 | author=Amy Lehman | title=Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance | page=21
|passage=The nineteenth century acting technique of making POINTS was
encouraged by the dramaturgy of the melodramas which dominated the stage. The
style was in fact difficult to avoid in many popular plays.}}
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[movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another]
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