Drop-scene

Full definition of drop-scene

Noun

1. (now rare) The curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc.
• 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 46:‘Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box, with a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the face.’