Spanish
telón de boca Large piece of cloth designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators.
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The drums, the piano and the violin give her a fluttering drape.
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You can see through that drape if there's enough light behind it.
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He was told to go home and drape his home in black.
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In its highest window a small man held a blood-red drape aside.
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Jondalar pushed the drape aside and was surprised to see his brother.
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At these equatorial latitudes night falls as suddenly as a stage curtain.
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BC let go of his pants and they fell like a stage curtain.
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The stage curtain smelled musty, like an old woman's dress.
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The hall has no changing rooms or showers and participants hide behind a stage curtain to change.
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But when it's raining in the mornings, sometimes we sneak behind the stage curtain in the cafeteria.
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The drop curtain is fast descending; only a yard of space remains.
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Never look at the audience from the wrong side of the drop curtain.
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Mine has a blush for every twig, and a drop curtain for every branch.
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In the cars the double windows, covered with frost, were about as transparent as a drop curtain.
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The orchestra had already commenced the prelude to a vaudeville turn, and the drop curtain had revealed the stage.
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Marie-Thérèse lies sleeping below her own classical bust, a theatrical curtain pinned up behind her.
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There was nothing else in the room but a closed theater curtain along one wall.
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The clouds parted like a theater curtain, to where a lemon sun poured warmth and light from a salmon-colored sky.
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A 19-by-20-foot theater curtain "Le Tricorne" painted by Pablo Picasso hangs at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, April 1, 2014.
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There is no hurry about the article on theater curtains.
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The wind combed through the trees around the dilapidated little house, and the rain came and went like the drawing and undrawing of theater curtains.
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Like a theatre curtain being slowly raised, the mist lifted from the surface of the water.
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The bed's drapes are already tied back, like theatre curtains.
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A series of theatre curtains create stages within stages, and mimic the permanently raised eyebrows of her ironic prose.