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proscenium
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tags: [architecture]
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Definition:1. (in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.2. (in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.3. (in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.4. A proscenium arch*text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike*(in a theatre) The arch that frames a stage, and separates it from the auditorium.
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The performance was timed as carefully as a prize-fight. [...] Everybody concerned in the show knew what he and everybody else had to do. The illuminated number-signs on either side of the proscenium changed themselves with the implacable accuracy of astronomical phenomena.
Arnold Bennett. Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People (1913)
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An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.
James Joyce. Ulysses.
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