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Curtain
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- 1 A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
"He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep."
- 2 hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) wordnet
- 3 A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
"“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[…]will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday[…]that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]”"
- 4 any barrier to communication or vision wordnet
- 5 The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises. broadly
"He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry."
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- 6 The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
"Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […]."
- 7 Death, final curtain. euphemistic, in-plural, sometimes
"For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow."
- 8 That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- 9 A flag; an ensign. derogatory, obsolete
"Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose"
- 10 The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
- 1 To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains. transitive
"In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat."
- 2 provide with drapery wordnet
- 3 To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain. figuratively, transitive
"And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;"
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.
Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.
See also for "curtain"
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