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Definition of Curtain

1. Verb. Provide with drapery. "Curtain the bedrooms"

2. Noun. Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window).

3. Noun. Any barrier to communication or vision. "A curtain of trees"

Definition of Curtain

1. n. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

2. v. t. To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

Definition of Curtain

1. Noun. A piece of cloth covering a window to keep the sun from shining inside. ¹

2. Noun. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater. ¹

3. Noun. (context: fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall. ¹

4. Noun. (euphemistic also "final curtain") death ¹

5. Verb. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Curtain

1. to provide with a hanging piece of fabric [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtain

cursory cursour cursours curst curstfully cursus curt curtail curtailed curtailer

curtailers curtailing curtailment curtailments curtails curtain (current term) curtain-call curtain-raise curtain-twitcher curtain-twitchers

curtain call curtain calls curtain coating curtain lecture curtain off curtain raiser curtain raising curtain ring curtain twitcher curtain twitchers

Literary usage of Curtain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith (1868)
"Tom,"the Man at the curtain." (Written in 1844.) Tom is a character. I remember him when he was a chubby little red-haired boy ; he is now a very large, ..."

2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"Origin of the curtain Theatre, and mistakes regarding it. In his History of the English Stage, prefixed to Mr. J. Payne Collier's edition of Shakespeare, ..."

3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1844)
"Origin of the curtain Theatre, and mistakes regarding it. In his History of the English Stage, prefixed to Mr. J. Payne Collier's edition of Shakespeare, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A curtain wall may be a mere screen, as to a court or yard, or a part of a facade; it may be solid or fenestrated, either higher or lower than its flanking ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This curtain prevents tho stump from being pressed against the tumblers, being just big enough to keep it from touching them until it has turned nearly ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Still they do not use the open altar like the Latin Church. Two curtains are hung before the sanctuary: a large double curtain hangs before its entrance, ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The following is the explanation of its figuring and lettering. 1. Flat bastion: Placed in the middle of a curtain when the lines of defence were too long ..."

8. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving by George Clinton Densmore Odell (1920)
"If "behind the curtain," when the curtain was raised, why not "before the curtain" when it was in the same position ? I am not arguing, I am merely asking a ..."

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