stage set

noun

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

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Tiësto, whose Quasar stage set is listed on Sunday’s Mojave livestream. David Viramontes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025 It was also reported that Ocean had plans for an elaborate stage set involving 120 performers skating on ice, but that ultimately fell apart. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025 Groups, families, or couples are observed from behind glass, speaking foreign languages, or simply too far away to hear, glimpsed across lobbies or through apartment windows lit up like stage sets. Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025 In my section, most people were only dimly aware of what was going on, what the stage set looked like from above, who the guest performers were, what the songs were about. Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 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 10 May. 2025.

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