tragic carpet

English

Noun

tragic carpet (plural tragic carpet)

  1. The green cloth that was spread on the stage in seventeenth century plays for the actors to "die" on so they would not dirty their clothes.

References
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (1979), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, p. 559
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