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stage setting

or stage set

[steyj set-ing or steyj set]
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noun
  1. setting(def 6).
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Examples from the Web for stage setting

Historical Examples

  • There is no pose about this town, no mise-en-scène, no stage-setting.

    Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome

    Apicius

  • The first stage-setting was Marken Harbor with the hay-boats.

  • But as the stage-setting was to be very elaborate, no positive date could be fixed.

    The Usurper

    Judith Gautier

  • The stage-setting is magnificent; even a volcano lights the scene.

  • Only a book can make a vast, inspiring, steadfast, stage-setting for a nation.

    Crowds

    Gerald Stanley Lee