Large piece of cloth designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators.
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Examples for "drape"
Examples for "drape"
1The drums, the piano and the violin give her a fluttering drape.
2You can see through that drape if there's enough light behind it.
3He was told to go home and drape his home in black.
4In its highest window a small man held a blood-red drape aside.
5Jondalar pushed the drape aside and was surprised to see his brother.
1The drop curtain is fast descending; only a yard of space remains.
2Never look at the audience from the wrong side of the drop curtain.
3Mine has a blush for every twig, and a drop curtain for every branch.
4In the cars the double windows, covered with frost, were about as transparent as a drop curtain.
5The orchestra had already commenced the prelude to a vaudeville turn, and the drop curtain had revealed the stage.
1Marie-Thérèse lies sleeping below her own classical bust, a theatrical curtain pinned up behind her.
1There was nothing else in the room but a closed theater curtain along one wall.
2The clouds parted like a theater curtain, to where a lemon sun poured warmth and light from a salmon-colored sky.
3A 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.
4There is no hurry about the article on theater curtains.
5The wind combed through the trees around the dilapidated little house, and the rain came and went like the drawing and undrawing of theater curtains.
1Like a theatre curtain being slowly raised, the mist lifted from the surface of the water.
2The bed's drapes are already tied back, like theatre curtains.
3A series of theatre curtains create stages within stages, and mimic the permanently raised eyebrows of her ironic prose.
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.
Translations for stage curtain