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- noun Plural form of
proscenium .
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Examples
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We know how sexy Cooke looked and how sensational was the play's climax in a cave on Staffa, because, in 1811, a stagestruck publisher, William West, had started to print images of play characters, followed by sets and prosceniums.
Projections of puppet theatre Vera Rule 2010
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Merchants of such celestial dreams, they certainly deserve much larger prosceniums, must vaster amphitheatres, and multiplied decibels.
Sri Aurobindo was a master-dreamer Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Merchants of such celestial dreams, they certainly deserve much larger prosceniums, must vaster amphitheatres, and multiplied decibels.
Archive 2007-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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While years of canny experience commanding prosceniums and manipulating adoring audiences pay off for them both, Ms. Arthur never gets personal, while Ms. Stritch saves herself the time and sweat of writing a potentially best-selling autobiography by talking it instead, warts and all.
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While years of canny experience commanding prosceniums and manipulating adoring audiences pay off for them both, Ms. Arthur never gets personal, while Ms. Stritch saves herself the time and sweat of writing a potentially best-selling autobiography by talking it instead, warts and all.
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Then the prosceniums of the theaters framed pageants of Oriental sensuousness -- scenes of hallucinatory seductiveness and splendor, through which, to a blare of startling music, bounded swarms of half-naked bodies jingling with jewels.
Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman
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The blue of the sky, the cold sun, the fog and the freezing water will become actors in a great play and the train windows will be little prosceniums inclosing the melodrama of winter.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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Two prosceniums were constructed which gave an indefinable sense of distance to the stage-picture.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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Chariots, sphinxes and cherubs perch on the prosceniums.
NYT > Home Page By EVE M. KAHN 2010
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Chariots, sphinxes and cherubs perch on the prosceniums.
NYT > Home Page By EVE M. KAHN 2010
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