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Definition of Closing curtain
1. Noun. The concluding part of any performance.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closing Curtain
Literary usage of Closing curtain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"nn angle of 45° with the plane of the base: and, by depressing tliis into the '
fenestra,' to make tense the closing curtain and set in motion the perilymph ..."
2. The Romantic World of Music by William Dawson Armstrong (1922)
"To accentuate his enthusiasm in her performance, he commanded the closing curtain
rung up and the finale of the opera repeated. ..."