scenesetter

English

Etymology

scene +‎ setter

Noun

scenesetter (plural scenesetters)

  1. One who, or that which, sets the scene.
    • 1986, Michael Shaun Rochemont, Focus in Generative Grammar, page 58:
      To be pragmatically determined, it must be the case that the expression does not contribute new information to the structure of the discourse except as an unremarkable scenesetter.
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