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Meanings of house curtain in English

Russian
театральный занавес
Spanish
telón
Wikidata

Stage curtain(s) at the very front of a theatrical stage.

      театральный занавес
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      Examples for "front curtain"
      Examples for "front curtain"
      1
      George dropped the front curtain, and turning to Betty and me, said:-
      The Touchstone of Fortune / Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who...
      2
      He poked his head under the front curtain and into a glum silence.
      Cabin Fever
      3
      By a mistake which is natural enough, its name has been connected with the front curtain of the stage.
      The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
      4
      He parked at the curb, and as he walked to the door he saw movement by the front curtain.
      Hunter's moon: a novel
      5
      The front curtain was run on rings, on a small, tight wire stretched across the entire width of the school house.
      Watch Yourself Go By
      1
      There was a one- act curtain raiser before the main production.
      Burglars can't be choosers
      1
      Like a theatre curtain being slowly raised, the mist lifted from the surface of the water.
      A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" / From the Diary of Number Five of ...
      2
      The bed's drapes are already tied back, like theatre curtains.
      The crimson petal and the white
      3
      A series of theatre curtains create stages within stages, and mimic the permanently raised eyebrows of her ironic prose.
      The Guardian
      Usage of house curtain in English
      1
      I look at the TV monitor in the stage manager's booth, and there's Phyllis running back and forth in front of the house curtain...
      The new yorker
      Translations for house curtain