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fourth wall

noun

Meaning

  1. The imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.
  2. (by extension) The boundary between the fiction and the audience.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data