drop-scene

English

Noun

drop-scene (plural drop-scenes)

1. (now rare) The curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 46:

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