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The word "props" is an abbreviation of "properties". Shakespeare uses "properties" in exactly this sense in A Midsummer Night's Dream when Peter Quince says, "In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants."

Shakespeare also uses "props" in its meaning as "things which hold something up." He uses this more proper meaning of prop quite often, and the plural twice. For example, Shylock says "You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live." Another word for this would be "support" but Shakespeare only uses the noun form of support once.

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