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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 759 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from
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Lat. stare, to stand)
  , in architecture, an elevated floor, particularly the various storeys of a bell-tower, &c . The
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term is also applied to the plain parts of buttresses between cap and cap where they set back, or where they are divided by
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horizontal strings and panelling . It is used, too, by William of Worcester to describe the compartments of windows between transom and transom, in contradistinction to the word
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bay, which signifies a division between mullion and mullion (see STOREY) . From the sense of the floor or platform on which plays were acted the term came to signify both the theatre (q.v.) and the drama (q.v.) . And from its etymological meaning of a station comes the sense of a place for rest on a journey, the distance between such places, &c .

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