drop-scene

noun

The curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc.

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Meanings

noundrop-scene (plural drop-scenes)

plural drop-scenes

  1. archaicThe curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc.

    ‘Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box, with a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the face.’

    1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 46
    1 more example

    [A]s he stood in the wings among the other players, he shared the common mirth amid which the drop scene was hauled upwards by two ablebodied priests with violent jerks and all awry.

    1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
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