"drop-scene" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 46",
          "text": "‘Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box, with a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the face.’",
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        "The curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc."
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          "play",
          "play"
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        "(now rare) The curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc."
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  "word": "drop-scene"
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        "(now rare) The curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc."
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