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
There is no drop curtain in a Chinese theatre, and all scenes are changed on the open stage before you.
From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by Morrison, George Ernest
