proscenium's Usage Examples:

An inscription found in the theatre showed that this portico, or at least the front portion of it, was called the proscenium or logeum, two terms of which the identity was previously disputed.

Behind this was a decorative, but false, proscenium on the solid rear wall of the auditorium.

The proscenium was originally about 14 ft.

The auditorium is little less perfect than that of Aspendus and very nearly as large; but the scena wall has collapsed over stage and proscenium in a cataract of loose blocks.

These two books between them stand like pillars of a proscenium arch, framing the perspectives of the looming twentieth century.

For these were substituted later a set of stone columns resembling those in the proscenium of a theatre.

The site has been excavated by the Greek Archaeological Society; it contained a temple, a sacred spring, into which coins were thrown by worshippers, altars and porticoes, and a small theatre, of which the proscenium is well preserved.

Kavvadias, who excavated the theatre, believes that the proscenium is contemporary with the rest of the theatre, which, like the Tholos, was built by Polyclitus (the younger); but Professor W.

Synonyms:

theatre stage, prompter"s box, apron, theater stage, prompt box, footlights, forestage, stage,

Antonyms:

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