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Definition of Theater 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Theater Curtain

Literary usage of Theater curtain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Technical World (1904)
"Electrically Operated theater curtain IN CHICAGO the extraordinary safety precautions resulting from the Iroquois fire have brought forth a combination ..."

2. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"... THE YELLOW JACKET ACT I At the rise of the theater curtain blue silk draperies are disclosed, embroidered with gold dragons, forming a tableau curtain. ..."

3. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"THE YELLOW JACKET ACT I At the rise of the theater curtain blue silk draperies are disclosed, embroidered with gold dragons, forming a tableau curtain. ..."

4. Shakespeare's Theater by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1916)
"The description, which includes the Theater, Curtain, and Rose, as well as the Swan, is in Latin and may be given in Archer's translation : There are in ..."

5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1906)
"... recommended (on a priori grounds rather than from tests), by fire chiefs and architects for a theater curtain, contains very fine brass wires, of No. ..."

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