Large piece of cloth designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators.
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.
6 But a stage curtain of a continuous color or a regular pattern wouldn't betray this slight discrepancy.
7 Then slowly the great stage curtain descended.
8 Through the closed velvet stage curtain , he could hear the guests taking their seats on the other side.
9 He imagines that a window curtain is a stage curtain with a packed auditorium on the other side.
10 I remember arriving at the venue, the Sydney Cove Passenger Terminal, and looking out from behind the stage curtain .
11 As the stage curtain falls, its boundaries are closed; the next time it rises, it is on a new reality.
12 To help on the circulation of air Pat raised the stage curtain and drop, and opened the little door forward.
13 The suddenness of the display was like the drawing-up of a stage curtain , with a melo-dramatic army and castle behind.
14 Ahead, hung the stage curtain , decorated with staring advertisements, "Lamson, the neighborhood undertaker," "Trade at the corner grocery.
15 Out of it a voice spoke-anAmerican voice; and then, with a lacy whirl, a parasol rose like a stage curtain .
16 The stage curtain , blushing pink at the name "Asbestos" inscribed upon it, came down with a slow midsummer movement.
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