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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The area of a modern theater that is located between the curtain and the orchestra.
  2. n. The stage of an ancient theater, located between the background and the orchestra.
  3. n. A proscenium arch.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In the ancient theater, the stage before the scene or back wall.
  2. n. In the modern theater, that part of the house which lies between the curtain or drop-scene and the orchestra: often used also to mean the curtain and the arch or framework which holds it.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
  2. n. The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
  3. n. The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
  4. n. A proscenium arch.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Anc. Theater) The part where the actors performed; the stage.
  2. n. (Modern Theater) The part of the stage in front of the curtain; sometimes, the curtain and its framework.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
  2. n. the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater

Etymologies

  1. From Latin proscaenium ("in front of the scenery"), from Ancient Greek προσκήνιον (proskēnion), from πρό (pro, "before") + σκηνή (skēnē, "scene building"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin proscēnium, from Greek proskēnion : pro-, before; see pro-2 + skēnē, buildings at the back of the stage. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • fbharjo before the rows, where theatrical columns are made! Feb 6, 2012

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