stage setting

A form of stage set — The disposition of props, scenery, etc. for a play.

Meanings

nounstage setting (plural stage settings)

plural stage settings

  1. alternativeAlternative form of stage set.

    The smells of the streets and the calls from the open windows of the brothels created the stage setting and he casually misremembered following the girl into the alley and being beaten and robbed and he casually misremembered being drunk and passing out along the sidewalk.

    2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 59, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 290

Synonyms & antonyms

nounarrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

Broader
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APA

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Chicago

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