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drop-scene

drop-scene noun: the curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc.

Noun

drop-scene (plural drop-scenes)

  1. (archaic) The 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
    • [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

Forms of drop-scene

pluraldrop-scenes

Questions about drop-scene

What does drop-scene mean?
Drop-scene means the curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc.
What part of speech is drop-scene?
Drop-scene is a noun.
What is the plural of drop-scene?
The plural of drop-scene is drop-scenes.

Words near drop-scene in the dictionary

  1. drop-offs
  2. drop-out
  3. drop-outs
  4. drop-proof
  5. drop-ripe
  6. drop-scene
  7. drop-scenes
  8. drop-set
  9. drop-sets
  10. drop-shaft
  11. drop-shafts

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