| 单词 | side shutter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasside shutter 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 chiefly Historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > scenery > pieces of side shutter1634 drop1781 flat1795 back-scene1818 border1824 profile1824 act drop1829 set piece1859 profiling1861 profile wing1873 backing1889 profile piece1896 revolve1900 construction1924 wood-wing1933 cutout1949 1634 in R. Southern Changeable Scenery (1952) i. 36 Not to draw ye upper shuters but ye masqu[er]s form ye under being draw[n]e. c1640 Lansdowne MS. 1171 in Portfolio (1889) 92/1 Came down from ye roof before ye upper part of ye syde shutters, whereby ye grooves above were hidden, and also ye house behind them. 1889 Portfolio 91/2 Inigo Jones..worked his changes by means of slips or, as he calls them, ‘shutters’, with a large painted scene on a frame at the back. There are several sets of designs for these shutters at Chatsworth. 1921 G. C. D. Odell Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving I. iii. 99 A Shutter is the modern ‘flat’, run—in two pieces— on grooves from opposite wings and clamping together when they meet midway of the stage. 1985 Observer 16 June 19/1 ‘Figaro’ is simply ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ itself, reduced for six solo singers and a piano quartet, given in what looks like a budget touring production, wittily designed on shutters. < as lemmas |
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