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

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

Pablo Picasso's drop curtain for Le Train Bleu ballet, at the V&A in London.

From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2010

You don't paint a miniature in the broad strokes that answer for a drop curtain, nor does the weaver of a pocket-handkerchief give to that fabric the texture of a carpet.

From How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction by Anonymous