forestage
IPA: fˈɔrʌsteɪdʒ
noun
- The part of a theatre stage in front of the closed curtain.
- A preliminary or developmental stage.
- (obsolete) Forecastle.
- (UK, law, historical) A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.
- (UK, law, historical) A service paid by foresters to the king.
verb
- (theater) To block so that someone or something appears in the forestage.
- (by extension) To make prominent; to bring into focus.
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Examples of "forestage" in Sentences
- The action took place on the forestage as if it was the stage of the opera house, looking into the auditorium.
- Invariably a stage manager would come out onto the forestage to give his ritual—and totally useless—admonition, “The gentlemen in the Balcony will kindly stop shooting missiles at the noods.”
- Contrary to Anneland, a veritable honey-bee running through pedals like so many flowers, Pettersen idled in the forestage, occupying himself with a single loop pedal and layering his riffs over and against each other with mounting baroque complexity.
- Outside the main stage, however, in the forestage areas on both sides, set designer Ulfat Gouda placed two mini realistic sets, facing each other, one representing a corner of an ornate sitting room in a gorgeous palace, alternately occupied by the Khedive and Shawqi, and the other, part of a drab living room in a humble home, alternately occupied by Hafiz and the modern historian.
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