stage left
nounTheater.
the part of the stage that is left of center as one faces the audience.
Origin of stage left
1First 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
the part of the stage to the left of a performer facing the audience
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