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proscenium

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10 lettersPronunciation /pɹəʊˈsiː.ni.əm/Part of speech nounSorted ceimnoprsuStarts with PEnds with M0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater

Word origin

From Latin proscaenium (“in front of the scenery”), from Ancient Greek προσκήνιον (proskḗnion), from πρό (pró, “before”) + σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene building”).

Used in a sentence

  • It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience.
  • The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).
  • Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.

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