drop curtain
Example Sentences
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The house chandeliers rose, the lights dimmed, the orchestra tuned, the black drop curtain went up, and “Madama Butterfly” got underway.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2019
But it’s another kind of show-stopper I’m speaking of today, the kind my taxi friend fears lurks behind every drop curtain.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2011
The ballet itself has long disappeared, but the drop curtain, of two women bounding along a beach, has survived.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2010
Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty When Lydia Lopokova, a former Diaghilev ballerina, went to see her old company perform in Paris in 1924, it was Picasso's drop curtain for the ballet Le Train Bleu that most impressed her.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2010
Furthermore, it revealed the drop curtain lowered on the stage, and the orchestra men peering questioningly, and not without fearful glances, over the rail which barred them from the polished dance floor.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell
