stage setting

English

Noun

stage setting (plural stage settings)

1. Alternative form of stage set.
   • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 59, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 290:

     The smells of the streets and the calls from the open windows of the brothels created the stage setting and he casually misremembered following the girl into the alley and being beaten and robbed and he casually misremembered being drunk and passing out along the sidewalk.

Related terms

• set the stage