scene-dock

noun

noun

An area in a theatre with access to the stage and the loading doors where scenery is temporarily stored

1925: Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie ‘Come, I’ll show you where I saw him—in the scene-dock of the third cellar.’

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