Definitions for drop-scene

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Drop-Scene is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 532 anagrams from letters in drop-scene (-cdeenoprs).

Definitions for drop-scene

noun

1. a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
2. a scene or act played with less intensity than the preceding one.
3. the last scene of an act or play.

Origin of drop-scene

First recorded in 1805-15

Examples for drop-scene

We had a drop scene representing the Lower Lake of Killarney.

No less than thirty-five islands, like beauty spots of a fairy "drop scene," bedeck the silver sheen of its surface.

Suddenly this enchanting landscape seemed to rise swiftly upward like the drop scene at a theatre, and vanished in a blank.

Behind them were the clumps of cypress trees which framed a vista of endless wooden garden and formed their drop scene.

It comes at the beginning of a first series of pictures, or as a kind of drop scene between one series of pictures and another.

At night the façade behaves very oddly, for it becomes then as flat as a drop scene.

It would be about midnight when I heard a rustling at the drop scene.