Theatre. Either of a pair of movable flats or back-scenes run in from opposite wings to meet in the middle of the stage. Also †side shutter. Now…

In a theatre: The painted curtain let down between the acts of a play to shut off the stage from the view of the audience; also called act drop…

Theatre. A part of a scene mounted on a wooden frame which is pushed in horizontally or lowered on to the stage. to join the flats: to make into a…

the background of a stage scene.

Usually plural. (See quot. 1957.)

Theatre.(a) A type of thin board used to make flat pieces of scenery, and from which stage properties are cut in outline. (b) A piece of stage…

a painted curtain or piece of scenery which is lowered between acts.

Theatre. A piece of scenery, either flat or three-dimensional and usually free-standing, that represents a single feature such as a tree, a gate…

Theatre. Profile board; = profile, n. 7(a). Now rare.

a flat piece of scenery placed at the side of a stage (cf. sense 7).

Scenery placed behind a door, window or other opening in a stage or film set.

(a) Theatre = sense 7(b); (b) chiefly Journalism a feature article, esp. one describing the life of a public figure.

Theatre. A turntable or other device for moving a piece of stage scenery, esp. during a scene change; a piece of scenery moved in this way; (now…

A mechanical structure used in a stage setting, or forming the setting itself.

a wing which is shaped and decorated so as to represent a tree or trees.

A figure cut out (or designed for cutting out) of paper, cloth, cardboard, wood, etc.; spec. in Theatre (see quot. 1961). Also figurative.