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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

drop curtain
On the theater stage, any curtain that moves up and down, rather than from side to side.


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Some have great broad stone staircases leading down to the water, with heavy stone balustrades ornamented with statuary and fancifully adorned with creeping vines and bright-colored flowers--for all the world like a drop curtain in a theatre, and lacking nothing but long-waisted, high-heeled women and plumed gallants in silken tights coming down to go serenading in the splendid gondola in waiting.
She was reclining on a sofa in such a very unstudied attitude, that she might have been taken for an actress all ready for the first scene in a ballet, and only waiting for the drop curtain to go up.
 
 
 
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