sceneshifter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a stagehand who moves or changes theatrical scenery during a performance

   Between acts, a sceneshifter rolled the painted backdrop into place.

A compound of scene in its theatrical sense + shifter, an agent noun from shift. Recorded from the eighteenth century, it originally named the worker who moved painted flats, backdrops, and other scenery as a play required. Scene-shifter is the historical hyphenated variant.

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