stage set

noun

: scenery and properties designed and arranged for a particular scene in a play

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The stage set could have been on loan from Oprah: two white armchairs, elaborate bouquets of flowers. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024 The Stage Arrangement Looks Otherworldly Powered by mellifluous melodies and surrealistic soundscapes fit for video games, Gunna is all about immersion, and his stage set here only accentuated the effect. Peter A. Berry, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2024 A couple of weeks after the convention, at a rally outside Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a crowd presses at the edges of a makeshift stage set within a hot oval of bleachers and mowed grass. Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024 In the line queue, guests will join the purgatory party — a massive club evocative of the stage set from The Weeknd’s most recent tour and featuring Dawn FM’s old man or After Hours younger self as DJ. Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stage set 

Word History

First Known Use

1861, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of stage set was in 1861

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“Stage set.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stage%20set. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

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