drop curtain

1. 1.

   a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery

   Synonymsdrop clothdrop

   Broadercurtain

Questions about drop curtain

What does drop curtain mean?

drop curtain means "a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery".

What is another word for drop curtain?

Close synonyms include drop cloth, drop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drop curtain a common word?

drop curtain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.