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Stage set

noun

Representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production. Synonym: set.

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"Stage set" Quotes from Famous Books

... the nail of envy! Have an orchestra polished to the last touch of execution, discoursing the divinest work of some highest priest of music. Sentinel the scene with marbles that would have doubled the fame of a Praxiteles. Now, with your stage set, invite to its sumptuous midst some amateur of all the arts whose senses were born for the beautiful. Do what you will to endow your artist with contentment in perfection. Fill his pockets with gold, give him wine of his fancy, have the woman he loves by his ...

— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis

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... in Berlioz's score are connected by M. Gunsbourg and forced to act in sequence for the sake of the stage set, in which a picture of Marguerite's chamber is presented in the conventional fashion made necessary by the exigency of showing an exterior and interior at the same time, as in the last act of "Rigoletto." For a reason at which I cannot even guess, ...

— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel

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... "Yes, from holding in. Mrs. Kaufman, should a woman like you—the finest woman in the world, and I can prove it—a woman, Mrs. Kaufman, who in her heart and my heart and—Should such a woman not come to Atlantic City when I got everything fixed like a stage set!" ...

— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

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Words linked to "Stage set" : setting, representation, mise en scene, scenery, set decoration, scene