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Meanings of theatrical curtain in English
Spanish
telón de boca Large piece of cloth designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators.
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Examples for "drape"
Examples for "drape"
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The drums, the piano and the violin give her a fluttering drape.
2
You can see through that drape if there's enough light behind it.
3
He was told to go home and drape his home in black.
4
In its highest window a small man held a blood-red drape aside.
5
Jondalar pushed the drape aside and was surprised to see his brother.
1
At these equatorial latitudes night falls as suddenly as a stage curtain.
2
BC let go of his pants and they fell like a stage curtain.
3
The stage curtain smelled musty, like an old woman's dress.
4
The hall has no changing rooms or showers and participants hide behind a stage curtain to change.
5
But when it's raining in the mornings, sometimes we sneak behind the stage curtain in the cafeteria.
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.
1
There was nothing else in the room but a closed theater curtain along one wall.
2
The clouds parted like a theater curtain, to where a lemon sun poured warmth and light from a salmon-colored sky.
3
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.
4
There is no hurry about the article on theater curtains.
5
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.
1
Like a theatre curtain being slowly raised, the mist lifted from the surface of the water.
2
The bed's drapes are already tied back, like theatre curtains.
3
A series of theatre curtains create stages within stages, and mimic the permanently raised eyebrows of her ironic prose.
Usage of theatrical curtain in English
1
Marie-Thérèse lies sleeping below her own classical bust, a theatrical curtain pinned up behind her.