| 单词 | curtain-call |
| 释义 | > as lemmascurtain-call curtain-call n. a call by an audience for an actor or actors to take a bow after the fall of the curtain (see 2). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > audience reaction exsibilation1640 call1754 encore1763 goose1805 the big bird1825 recall1851 curtain1884 curtain-call1884 slow burn1936 1884 ‘F. Leslie’ Let. 15 July in W. T. Vincent Recoll. F.L. (1893) I. x. 176 You will find a room specially adapted for rehearsing curtain calls. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xxi. 377 Uncle Sam has nine curtain-calls holding Miss Panama by the hand. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 17 Apr. 1/3 Thirty ‘curtain calls’ rewarding play and players. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xii. 144 He felt a wave of stage-fright such as he had only once experienced before in his life—on the occasion when he had been young enough to take a curtain-call on a first-night. < as lemmas |
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