curtain line

noun

Theater.

1. the last line of a scene, act, etc., as in a play; tag line.

Word History and Origins

Origin of curtain line¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Eventually, Ms. Lee turned that thriftiness into a business: first with a curtain line started in the bedroom of her aunt and uncle’s house and later with a QVC show, and eventually, a cooking empire.

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Audiences, actors, directors, everyone pressed Shaw to give the play a happy ending — the actress he had written Eliza for rebelled and wrote her own cutesy curtain line — but Shaw wouldn’t budge.

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Green joined with L. C. Greenwood, Ernie Holmes and Dwight White on the Steel Curtain line that teamed with linebackers Lambert, Ham and Andy Russell, and defensive backs Blount, J. T. Thomas, Glen Edwards, Donnie Shell and Mike Wagner in one of the N.F.L.’s greatest defensive alignments, which eventually was known collectively as the Steel Curtain.

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He had a marvelous curtain line left for the day and for the series as a whole: “Now what?”

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The Maker of Sounds enters with his arms full of instruments, crosses the scene and sits with his back against one side of the proscenium, outside the curtain line.

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