[…] in that large, lofty, fine room, they had a tiny, old-fashioned, becurtained cabinet piano stuck right against the wall, unto which the singer's face was turned, and into which his voice was absorbed.
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Becurtain
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She lay becurtained in loose tresses, / Not seeing what her half-dropt zone / Let of her bosom's bower be shown […]
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At the back of her neck, the real smell of her hair came out from under the chemical scents of the processes it was subjected to in that be-curtained shop below my office […]
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2014, Husayn Ilahi-Ghomshei, "The Symphony of Rūmī" in Leonard Lewisohn (ed.), The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition, Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, Section X, "The Spirit," p. 28, https://books.google.ca/books?id=iMNEBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The intellect, [the spirit's] guardian, is tremendously jealous to preserve the girl's honor and so strives to conceal her behind a multitude of veils. Amongst these veils are the body itself which becurtains our soul, and our conversation and words that cloak conceptions and ideas.
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