| 单词 | prompter's box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprompter's box prompter's box n. a box on a stage, typically in the centre in front of the footlights, where the prompter sits. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > prompter's box prompter's box1775 prompt box1859 1775 F. Abington Let. in Private Corr. D. Garrick (1832) II. 32 Begging leave to sit in the prompter's box. 1841 Times 25 Oct. 7/4 A basket of raw meat is placed in the middle of the stage, within a yard or two of the prompter's box. 1926 S. M. Waxman Antoine & Théâtre-Libre iv. 68 [He] lost his nerve on seeing the prompter's box empty, stumbled through the first few lines, and withdrew. 1988 Eighteenth-Cent. Stud. 22 169 She faked a few strums on the instrument while a guitarist hidden in the prompter's box provided the sounds. < as lemmas |
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