WordNet
n. a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance [syn: theater curtain]
Usage examples of "theatre curtain".
He made a flouncy gesture with his hands, like he was maybe pushing back a theatre curtain only he could see.
The billboard parted and opened like a theatre curtain, revealing an unending expanse of rolling wooded hills.
Luis felt all his gloom and misery lift like a theatre curtain, turning the kitchen into a place of colour and light.
The fog was opening like a theatre curtain, and the scene it revealed was melodramatic and stagey, seemingly too riotously coloured to be natural as the dawn fumed and glowed like a display of fireworks, orange and gold and green where it sparkled on the ocean, turning the twisting columns of fog the colour of blood and roses so that the very waters seemed to burn with unearthly fires.
As if a theatre curtain, the white fog began to lift, though in its wake rose up a bloody mist that hugged the ground.
The expanse of pearl-grey suiting material necessary to cover this bulge was as vast as a theatre curtain.
The timbers joined in again, crackling and snapping, and as slowly as a theatre curtain the rock sagged down from above him.
There came a stronger puff as he spoke, which rolled away the smoke in a solid mass over the starboard bow and revealed the scene as if a theatre curtain had been raised.
McNeill paused and cleared his throat before getting down to his special story, and I felt a tingling sensation as when a theatre curtain rises.