drop-scene

noun

noun

Archaic The curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc.

‘Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box, with a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the face.’1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 46:

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