Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The openings in the wings of a theater affording side views of the stage.

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Examples

  • She took it to Cameron who lay as one dead, oblivious to his surroundings; he sagged back in his chair with his head lolling against the side-wings.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • There was a long passage at the top turning at both ends into the side-wings.

    An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football 2010

  • From the wings and the side-wings of both, warriors desirous of battle came forth.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Yesterday's matinée, Rising of the Moon, Well of the Saints, and Workhouse Ward, was again so crowded that I could not get a place and went and sat in the side-wings, where a cine -

    Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography 1913

  • He fell as he struck the stage; but quickly recovering himself, sprang through the side-wings and escaped from the theatre by a rear door.

    The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913

  • At length, in the July of 1711, the Corps de Logis and the small adjoining pavilions were ready for occupation, and the long eastern and western side-wings were so nearly completed that it was possible to lodge the chief personages of the court, and the army of serving men and women.

    A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

  • That where the doors of entrance now are, there formerly stood two additional side-wings, in front to a full set of scenes, which had then almost a double effect in their loftiness and magnificence.

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

  • Hansen_ (1843), an imposing two-storied composition with a lofty central colonnade and lower side-wings, harmonious in general proportions and pleasingly varied in outline and mass.

    A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

  • The book-cases on the walls held old college classics and law-books underneath, and above a miscellaneous literary library, of which the main bulk was French, while the side-wings, so to speak, had that tempting miscellaneous air -- here a patch of German, there an island of Italian; on this side rows of English poets, on the other an abundance of novels of all languages -- which delights the fond heart of the book-lover.

    Miss Bretherton Humphry Ward 1885

  • The side-wings of the Hospital, built of red brick faced with stone, and darkened by age, are 360 feet in length and four stories in height.

    Chelsea The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868

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