flies
noun
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Pronunciation: /flaɪz/
noun
- The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
“[…] I was born in the dressing-room, suckled in the flies, educated in the lobby, and brought up in the property-room […]”
“Hung from the “flies” in air, She acts a palpable lie, She’s as little a fairy there As unpoetical I!”
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of fly