proscenium in Greek

proscenium in Greek

What does "proscenium" mean?

1. noun The area of a stage that lies between the curtain and where the orchestra is positioned.
   "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. noun The part of a stage just in front of the backdrop structure.
3. noun A line of pillars at the front of the backdrop, originally set behind the round performing area and later built onto the stage itself.
   "The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή)."
4. noun The arch that frames the front of a stage.
   "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."

proscenium in a sentence

• 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.
• The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).
• 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.

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