Large piece of cloth designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators.
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Examples for "drape "
Examples for "drape "
1 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 Marie-Thérèse lies sleeping below her own classical bust, a theatrical curtain pinned up behind her.
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.
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