fire curtain

Example Sentences

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The book delivery system will be moved to the perimeter of the room, and a retractable fire curtain will be installed.

From Washington Post

She told me stories of being a young woman in the theatre — warned me away from the fire curtain, the heavy red velvet drape with chains at the bottom.

From Salon

The term conjures visions of stagehands grabbing a quick toke behind the fire curtain, but it refers to the fly system that John and the other flymen operate: Sandbags attached to ropes allow stagehands to quickly change heavy backdrops and other pieces of the set by raising and lowering them.

From Washington Post

In one episode right after his return, the dancers were already in costume when stagehands blocked their performance by refusing to raise the fire curtain onstage.

From New York Times

It’s a “nicely behaved” eruption, as one scientist put it—a “nice fire curtain with lava squirting out”—following a few nerve-wracking weeks of “seismic crisis,” marked by thousands of subglacial earthquakes and a threatening intrusion of magma.

From The New Yorker