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Meanings of drop curtain in English
A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery.
Synonyms
Examples for "drop"
Examples for "drop"
1
That tinkering saw the support for 'yes' drop to 49 per cent.
2
However, he decided to drop out in 1981 during his second year.
3
For different reasons, both parties are likely to see their vote drop.
4
The fight to pressure the state to drop the case is on.
5
She did, however, drop a hint about a possible new television role.
1
Lee plopped down on the paint-splattered drop cloth that covered the polished wood floor.
2
She carefully removed the items and laid them out on a plastic drop cloth.
3
Barbara looked at the splotches that covered the drop cloth, cringed and sat down.
4
I had spread a drop cloth on the floor while I was waiting for him.
5
He pulled out several tiny ink caps and tacked them down to the drop cloth.
Usage of drop curtain in English
1
The drop curtain is fast descending; only a yard of space remains.
2
Never look at the audience from the wrong side of the drop curtain.
3
Mine has a blush for every twig, and a drop curtain for every branch.
4
In the cars the double windows, covered with frost, were about as transparent as a drop curtain.
5
The orchestra had already commenced the prelude to a vaudeville turn, and the drop curtain had revealed the stage.
6
Farther still, vision faint, remote and immaculate, the white peaks of the Sierra hung, a painting on the drop curtain of the sky.
7
The hangings fell instantly like the drop curtain of a theatre, its rustle overwhelmed in the vociferous yell that rang to the echoing roof.
8
Across this was a drawbridge, which was raised and dropped at fitting intervals, and the drop curtain was made to represent a massive castle door.
9
The only Laugh in the Piece was when the Drop Curtain refused to work.
10
I knew that when the storm started again, it would be instantaneous, a dropped curtain.
11
Meanwhile we sit, as it were, facing a vast stage, in front of us a dropped curtain.
12
With buttoned door and dropped curtains the little woman made haste to array herself in her finest raiment.
13
From it dropped curtains, shimmering, nebulous as the marching folds of the aurora; they poured, cascaded, from the amethystine band.
14
Through the dropped curtain they saw the world brokenly; the light in the cave was sunken and dim, the air cold.
15
"The Drop Curtain," by Degas.