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noun Theater.

the part of the stage that is left of center as one faces the audience.

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Also called left stage.

Origin of stage left

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby stage left

stage-door Johnny, stage-driver, stage effect, stage fright, stagehand, stage left, stage-manage, stage manager, stage pocket, stager, stage right

How to use stage left in a sentence

Then she shoves MacMillan in the chest and exits stage left.
‘Halt and Catch Fire’ and AMC’s Push to Reset Dramas|Andrew Romano|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then, from a side door, stage left, enter the Indescribable Phenomenon.
Mystic London:|Charles Maurice Davies
We concluded to go, and when the stage left next morning for San Francisco we were on the outside seat.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
Two or three days of the intensest frost intervened between the first snow and the Thursday on which the stage left Greenock.
Cedar Creek|Elizabeth Hely Walshe

With his handcuffed captive on a horse beside him, the Ranger rode down to the post-office just before the stage left.
Oh, You Tex!|William Macleod Raine
On one of its trips in the early fall, the Clarendon stage left town almost half an hour late.
Oh, You Tex!|William Macleod Raine

British Dictionary definitions for stage left

stage left

noun

the part of the stage to the left of a performer facing the audience

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