front curtain

  • 1Front curtain — An Austrian curtain. The front curtain, also known as the house curtain, act curtain, grand drape, main drape or main rag[1][2] is a stage curtain at the very front of a stage. Typically …

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  • 2Curtain Theatre — circa 1600. (some authorities believe this to be a depiction of The Theatre, the other Elizabethan theatre in Shoreditch) Address 18 Hewett Street …

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  • 3Curtain (disambiguation) — Curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light Contents 1 Materials 2 People politics 3 Music media …

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  • 4Curtain (novel) — Curtain: Poirot s Last Case   …

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  • 5curtain — [kʉrt′ n] n. [ME & OFr cortine < LL(Ec) cortina, lit. a cauldron, enclosing circle of a theater, curtain (< IE base * (s)ker , to CURVE); used in Vulg. instead of L cors, cohors (see COURT) to translate Gr aulaia, curtain (esp. in a… …

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  • 6curtain call — curtain calls also curtain call N COUNT In a theatre, when actors or performers take a curtain call, they come forward to the front of the stage after a performance in order to receive the applause of the audience. The first time they danced… …

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  • 7Front — (fr[u^]nt), n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. [1913 Webster] Bless d with his father s front, his mother s tongue. Pope …

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  • 8Front door — Front Front (fr[u^]nt), n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. [1913 Webster] Bless d with his father s front, his mother s… …

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  • 9Front of fortification — Front Front (fr[u^]nt), n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. [1913 Webster] Bless d with his father s front, his mother s… …

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  • 10Front of operations — Front Front (fr[u^]nt), n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. [1913 Webster] Bless d with his father s front, his mother s… …

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