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Meaning of drop-scene | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc.

archaic

Examples

“‘Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box, with a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the face.’”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

drop-set drop-shipping drop-tongue drop, fall, reduction dropback dropbox