All 50 Uses
proprietor
in
Rhinoceros, by Ionesco
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- CAFE PROPRIETOR: [sticking his head out of the first-floor window] What's going on?†
p. 9.5
- WAITRESS: [to the PROPRIETOR] A rhinoceros!†
p. 9.8
- PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS from his window] You're seeing things.†
p. 9.8 *
- PROPRIETOR: [still looking off left, following the distant course of the animal as the noises fade; hooves, trumpetings, etc.] [BERENGER sleepily averts his head a little on account of the dust, but says nothing; he simply makes a grimace.]†
p. 10.1
- PROPRIETOR: Really, these days, you never know ... WAITRESS: Fancy that!†
p. 10.8
- JEAN: [to the PROPRIETOR and the WAITRESS] What did you think of that?†
p. 11.2
- PROPRIETOR: [shrugging his shoulders, at window] You don't often see that!†
p. 11.3
- PROPRIETOR: [to JEAN] Went past like a comet!†
p. 11.4
- PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS] Don't hang about!†
p. 11.6
- BERENGER: [timidly] There's no point in leaving it for the proprietor.†
p. 17.1
- PROPRIETOR: [coming out of the café] What's going on?†
p. 26.1
- WAITRESS: [to the PROPRIETOR] A rhinoceros!†
p. 26.1
- PROPRIETOR: It's no reason to break the glasses.†
p. 26.2
- PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS] You'll be charged up for those!†
p. 26.4
- LOGICIAN: PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS, pointing to the broken glasses and the upturned chairs] Don't just stand there!†
p. 27.1
- PROPRIETOR: [pointing, for the WAITRESS'S benefit, to the debris] Over there, over there!†
p. 27.3
- BERENGER: [to DAISY] Good morning, Miss Daisy, you must excuse me, I haven't had a chance to shave ... PROPRIETOR: [supervising the clearing up of the debris, then glancing towards the HOUSEWIFE] Poor little thing!†
p. 27.5
- PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS whose apron is full of broken glass] Throw that in the dustbin!†
p. 27.9
- PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS, who comes back while they are installing the weeping HOUSEWIFE at one of the terrace tables, still cradling her dead cat.]†
p. 28.5
- PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS] A brandy!†
p. 28.7
- PROPRIETOR: I think it was the same one.†
p. 28.9
- PROPRIETOR: [to the HOUSEWIFE] Just have a taste, it's good.†
p. 29.4
- PROPRIETOR: [to the HOUSEWIFE] Now wasn't that good?†
p. 29.8
- PROPRIETOR: [to the HOUSEWIFE] You have to accept these things!†
p. 30.1
- PROPRIETOR: [to JEAN and BERENGER] NOW, gentlemen!†
p. 30.3
- PROPRIETOR: [to JEAN and BERENGER] We don't want any scenes here!†
p. 30.8
- And in any case, Asiatics are people the same as everyone else ... WAITRESS: Yes, Asiatics are people the same as we are ... OLD GENTLEMAN: [to the PROPRIETOR] That's true!†
p. 31.2
- PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS] Nobody's asking for your opinion!†
p. 31.2
- DAISY: [to the PROPRIETOR] She's right.†
p. 31.2
- PROPRIETOR: I've known some real ones.†
p. 31.7
- PROPRIETOR: This is getting serious!†
p. 31.9
- PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS] Go and get a little coffin for the poor thing ... OLD GENTLEMAN: [to BERENGER] I think you're right.†
p. 32.3
- PROPRIETOR: [to the GROCER'S WIFE] Your husband's right, the Asiatic rhinoceros has two horns and the African one must have two, and vice versa.†
p. 33.1
- OLD GENTLEMAN: [to the PROPRIETOR] You're mistaken, my friend.†
p. 33.2
- PROPRIETOR: [to the OLD GENTLEMAN] I'm very sorry, I'm sure.†
p. 33.3
- GROCER'S WIFE: [from window, to the OLD GENTLEMAN, the PROPRIETOR and the GROCER] Maybe they're both the same.†
p. 33.4
- PROPRIETOR: [to the GROCER'S WIFE] If the one has two horns, then the other must have one.†
p. 33.4
- PROPRIETOR: Well, let's say there were two.†
p. 34.1
- PROPRIETOR: Which is two-homed?†
p. 34.1
- PROPRIETOR: Oh!†
p. 34.3
- PROPRIETOR: Would you mind telling us then, sir, if the African rhinoceros is single-homed.†
p. 34.6
- PROPRIETOR: We're listening, sir.†
p. 34.9
- GROCER: [repeating the words, as f to understand better] On two occasions a single rhinoceros ... PROPRIETOR: [doing the same] Bearing a single horn.†
p. 35.3
- PROPRIETOR: That's true.†
p. 35.6
- LOGICIAN: Now, if you had seen ... GROCER: If we'd seen ... OLD GENTLEMAN: Yes, if we'd seen ... LOGICIAN: If on the first occasion you had seen a rhinoceros with two horns ... PROPRIETOR: With two horns.†
p. 35.7
- PROPRIETOR: Why not?†
p. 35.9
- PROPRIETOR: Yes, that's possible.†
p. 36.2
- PROPRIETOR: African or Asiatic.†
p. 36.8
- PROPRIETOR: He's absolutely right!†
p. 37.5
- [To the PROPRIETOR:] Get me a brandy†
p. 37.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(proprietor) the owner of a business
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, proprietor can reference someone with sole or partial ownership of anything -- such as a trademark.