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tormentor means: a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

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tormentor

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9 lettersPronunciation /tɔːˈmɛn.tə(ɹ)/Part of speech nounSorted emnoorrttStarts with TEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word

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a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

From Anglo-Norman tourmentour, from Old French tormenteor.

“The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland.”
“And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.”
“All the racks and dungeons of Rome, with their tormentors, could not terrify him.”

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