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apron

In engineering, a term for various devices used to shelter parts of a mechanism or machine. Examples are the rectangular piece of lead which covers the vents of a cannon, the piece of curved timber above the forward end of the keel of a ship, and the protective platform at the base of machines. The term is also used for the concrete or other hard standing on which aircraft park.



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Firstly the Finborough, always a constrained space, seems oppressively small when a cast of 14 is tripping on and off its narrow apron stage.
SKIMPY PLOT PUTS FAIR IN A SAD STATE; THEATRE by The Evening Standard (London, England)
More recently, apron stages with minimal settings, which became widespread in the twentieth century, restored much of the original theatrical experience.
This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance Then and ... by Lyons, Bridget Gellert / Renaissance Quarterly
The curtains have gone up on the Apron Stage in the Perthshire village of Stanley.
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