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proscenium
/pɹoʊˈsiː.ni.əm/
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What does proscenium mean?
noun
- The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
- The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
- The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
More meanings (1)
noun
- A proscenium arch.
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Where circumstances admit, the directions we give elsewhere as to the construction of a stage and proscenium for private theatricals may be followed with advantage.
Scaphio: And as if that wasn't enough, the County Councillor has or-dered a four-foot wall to be built up right across the proscenium, in case of fire—as in England.
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Only in front the place was open like the proscenium of a theatre, and we looked forth into a great realm of air, and down upon treetops and hilltops, and far and near on wild and varied country.
I have seen one edge of the sky raised straight up a few million miles, as though some one had stuck poles under its corners, so that the western heaven did not curve cup-wise over to the horizon at all as it did everywhere else, but rather formed the proscenium of a gigantic stage.