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Definition of Theatre curtain
1. Noun. A hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance.
Generic synonyms: Curtain, Drape, Drapery, Mantle, Pall
Specialized synonyms: Safety Curtain
Group relationships: Theater Stage, Theatre Stage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Theatre Curtain
Literary usage of Theatre curtain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mon Ami Pierrot: Songs and Fantasies by Vincent Starrett (1917)
"Ah—this theatre-curtain! Think awhile How the faces on it smile! How they dance,
Glance, Shine! Columbine Leads her sportive pageant in Gay Pierrot! ..."
2. A Short Course in Advertising by Alex Faickney Osborn (1921)
"There are two other mediums through which to advertise to theatre audiences—one
is the theatre program and the other is the theatre-curtain. ..."
3. The Elizabethan Playhouse, and Other Studies by William John Lawrence (1912)
"It differed essentially from the normal theatre curtain of to-day, inasmuch as
it descended beneath the stage at the opening of the play and arose when it ..."
4. The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex by William John Hardy (1899)
"This also stood within the same "liberty." The title had, strangely enough,
nothing to do with a theatre curtain ; the title ..."
5. Memories and Impressions of Helena Modjeska: An Autobiography by Helena Modjeska (1910)
"... and excites the admiration of all foreign visitors, who cannot understand why
such a beautiful work of art is used for a theatre curtain. ..."
6. The Court and the London Theatres During the Reign of Elizabeth by Thornton Shirley Graves (1913)
"movable one at the Theatre, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe or Fortune. The Swan
picture, which certainly seems to represent a fixed stage, cannot be used as ..."
7. Catalogue of the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden by Gemäldegalerie (Dresden, Germany), Karl Woermann (1896)
"2268 Leda and the swan. Signed: TA . Grosse . 1852. 84 d. — (8276) — С. — 1,50
h.; 1,08 w. 2269 Design for a theatre curtain. ..."
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