Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The part of a stage in front of the closed curtain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fighting-platform or forecastle which was built on the forward part of the upper deck of ancient vessels.
- noun In Eng. law: A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters
- noun An old service paid by foresters to the king.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
- noun A service paid by foresters to the king.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The part of a theatre
stage in front of the closed curtain. - noun UK, law, historical A
duty ortribute payable to theking 'sforesters . - noun UK, law, historical A
service paid by foresters to the king.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Invariably a stage manager would come out onto the forestage to give his ritual—and totally useless—admonition, “The gentlemen in the Balcony will kindly stop shooting missiles at the noods.”
DesignerBlog Will 2007
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The action took place on the forestage as if it was the stage of the opera house, looking into the auditorium.
Archive 2006-01-01 Will 2006
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Outside the main stage, however, in the forestage areas on both sides, set designer Ulfat Gouda placed two mini realistic sets, facing each other, one representing a corner of an ornate sitting room in a gorgeous palace, alternately occupied by the Khedive and Shawqi, and the other, part of a drab living room in a humble home, alternately occupied by Hafiz and the modern historian.
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Contrary to Anneland, a veritable honey-bee running through pedals like so many flowers, Pettersen idled in the forestage, occupying himself with a single loop pedal and layering his riffs over and against each other with mounting baroque complexity.
Everything2 New Writeups Aerobe 2010
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