asbestos n.
an asbestos-coated theatre safety curtain.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Your Broadway & Mine 16 Dec. [synd. col.] There were some cheers, too, when the last asbestos dropped on the [...] mellow drama. |
In compounds
(US) the shutting of a theatre after the performance [the lowering of the safety curtain over the stage; note synon. UK theatre sl. the iron].
| Your Broadway & Mine 15 June [synd. col.] [She] appears in ‘Peggy Ann’ [...] at the Vanderbilt, and after asbestos time, works for La Guinan. |