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单词 stage effect
释义

stage effect


noun

a highly spectacular or artificial device or means, especially for attracting attention.

Origin of stage effect

First recorded in 1785–95

Words nearby stage effect

stage director, stage-dive, stage door, stage-door Johnny, stage-driver, stage effect, stage fright, stagehand, stage left, stage-manage, stage manager
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Example sentences from the Web for stage effect

  • Though the humour was often prepared, the construction showed a rare mastery of stage-effect.

    Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2)|Frank Harris
  • Othello is probably the character best adapted to stage-effect, and Kean has an uninterrupted power over us in playing it.

    The Oxford Book of American Essays|Various
  • In his Plaideurs there is more of humour and stage-effect than of wit.

    Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2|Henry Hallam

British Dictionary definitions for stage effect

stage effect

noun

a special effect created on the stage by lighting, sound, etc
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