stage-setty

English

Etymology

From stage set +‎ -y.

Adjective

stage-setty (comparative stage-settier, superlative stage-settiest)

1. (informal) Resembling a stage set.
   • 1976, Sally Woodbridge, editor, Bay Area Houses, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 110:

     In his apartment complex, Thornberg Village (now called Normandy Village) in Berkeley of 1928, he took the conventional and rather dull H-shaped apartment plan and squeezed and pulled it apart so that we feel, in a "stage-setty" way, that we are in a Medieval village.