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Proscenium

//pɹoʊˈsiː.ni.əm// noun

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Noun

1
The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
"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."
2
the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater wordnet
3
The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
4
the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) wordnet
5
The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
"The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή)."

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6
A proscenium arch.
"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."

Etymology

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

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