Large piece of cloth designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators.
1At these equatorial latitudes night falls as suddenly as a stage curtain.
2BC let go of his pants and they fell like a stage curtain.
3The stage curtain smelled musty, like an old woman's dress.
4The hall has no changing rooms or showers and participants hide behind a stage curtain to change.
5But when it's raining in the mornings, sometimes we sneak behind the stage curtain in the cafeteria.
6But a stage curtain of a continuous color or a regular pattern wouldn't betray this slight discrepancy.
7Then slowly the great stage curtain descended.
8Through the closed velvet stage curtain, he could hear the guests taking their seats on the other side.
9He imagines that a window curtain is a stage curtain with a packed auditorium on the other side.
10I remember arriving at the venue, the Sydney Cove Passenger Terminal, and looking out from behind the stage curtain.
11As the stage curtain falls, its boundaries are closed; the next time it rises, it is on a new reality.
12To help on the circulation of air Pat raised the stage curtain and drop, and opened the little door forward.
13The suddenness of the display was like the drawing-up of a stage curtain, with a melo-dramatic army and castle behind.
14Ahead, hung the stage curtain, decorated with staring advertisements, "Lamson, the neighborhood undertaker," "Trade at the corner grocery.
15Out of it a voice spoke-anAmerican voice; and then, with a lacy whirl, a parasol rose like a stage curtain.
16The stage curtain, blushing pink at the name "Asbestos" inscribed upon it, came down with a slow midsummer movement.
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