drop curtain
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drop curtain
Theatre a curtain that is suspended from the flies and can be raised and lowered onto the stage
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drop curtain
On the theater stage, any curtain that moves up and down, rather than from side to side.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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(Such later twentieth-century British spear-carriers were accorded a surprise appearance.) Today's vogue for avant-garde performance costumes wasn't directly flagged, but an Edward Burra watercolor of stylized commedia dell'arte figures (Design for a
Drop Curtain, 1946) served as makeweight.
They had a curtain around, high enough that you could not see over, on a space of fifteen by fifteen yards [fourteen by fourteen metres] with a
drop curtain in front of the firing squad.
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