tragic carpet

noun

The green cloth that was spread on the stage in seventeenth century plays for the actors to "die" on so they would not dirty their clothes.

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Meanings

nountragic carpet (plural tragic carpet)
  1. The green cloth that was spread on the stage in seventeenth century plays for the actors to "die" on so they would not dirty their clothes.
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