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orchestra-pit

orchestra-pit is the alternative form of orchestra pit.

Meaning of orchestra pit

Noun

orchestra pit (plural orchestra pits)

  1. (performing arts) A sunken area in front of a stage in which musicians, largely hidden from view, play music to accompany stage performances.
    • On the stage of the Gotham gloom reigned. . . . Johnson Miller was pacing the gangway between the orchestra pit and the first row of the orchestra chairs.1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in Jill the Reckless

Forms of orchestra-pit

pluralorchestra-pits

Questions about orchestra-pit

What is orchestra-pit the alternative form of?
Orchestra-pit is the alternative form of orchestra pit.

Words near orchestra-pit in the dictionary

  1. orchestra hit
  2. orchestra hits
  3. orchestra pit
  4. orchestra pits
  5. orchestra stalls
  6. orchestra-pit
  7. orchestrae
  8. orchestral
  9. orchestral pop
  10. orchestraless
  11. orchestralist

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