stage left


nounTheater.
  1. the part of the stage that is left of center as one faces the audience.

Origin of stage left

1
First recorded in 1930–35
  • Also called left stage.

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How to use stage left in a sentence

  • She seated herself in the dusk of the left stage-box and bared her breast for blows.

    Blue-grass and Broadway | Maria Thompson Daviess
  • "Have seats in the left stage-box," he directed them in the same tone of voice with which he had quelled Miss Hawtry.

    Blue-grass and Broadway | Maria Thompson Daviess

British Dictionary definitions for stage left

stage left

noun
  1. the part of the stage to the left of a performer facing the audience

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