Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, the back part of the stage of a theater, behind the scenes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The part of a theater behind the scenes; the back part of the stage of a theater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The part of a
theater behind thescenes ; thebackstage area.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Behind the scenes were the postscenium, or retiring-room, and porticoes, to which, in case of sudden showers, the people retreated from the theatre.
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We came again to the front of the theatre: to an entrance -- approached between converging railings, which brought the crowd to an angry focus, and so passed its parts singly between the ticket-takers -- leading into what once was the postscenium, and thence across where once was the
The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881
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Grecian custom of hollowing out a hill-side and of facing the open cutting with a structure of masonry: which completed the tiers of seats cut in the living rock; provided in its main body the postscenium, and in its wings the dressing-rooms; and, rising in front to a level with the colonnade which crowned and surrounded the auditorium, made at once the outer façade and the rear wall of the stage. [
The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881
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