Definition of Curtain ring

1. Noun. A circular ring for holding up a curtain.

Generic synonyms: Hoop, Ring

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtain Ring

curtailment
curtailments
curtails
curtain
curtain-call
curtain-raise
curtain-twitcher
curtain-twitchers
curtain call
curtain calls
curtain coating
curtain lecture
curtain off
curtain raiser
curtain raising
curtain ring (current term)
curtain twitcher
curtain twitchers
curtained
curtaining
curtainless
curtainlike
curtains
curtainwall
curtainwalls
curtal
curtal friar
curtalax
curtalaxe
curtalaxes

Literary usage of Curtain ring

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

1. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"... such as I found in Knoydart (Fig. 82), was reached. <T. S2. —Annular Brooch from Knoydart, made nf n curtain ring and a bodle - pin. Full size. ..."

2. The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries by Edward J. Wood (1869)
"The Duke of Hamilton was married at May Fair with a bed-curtain ring. " Notes and Queries " for October, 1860, relates that a ring of leather, ..."

3. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1877)
"The water within the ball was everywhere gyrating round the central ring, as if the coils of string were each spinning round the curtain ring as an axis, ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases, Injuries, and Malformations of the by Samuel David Gross (1855)
"A lad, aged eight years, passed a brass curtain-ring over his penis, ... A section of it disclosed about two-thirds of the brass curtain-ring, ..."

5. The Domestic World: A Practical Guide in All the Daily Difficulties of the by Robert Kemp Philp (1889)
"The beautiful Miss Gunning was married to the Duke of Hamilton with a curtain-ring. Weeds on Gravel Walks, How то DESTROY.—Any manufacturing chemist will be ..."

6. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal by Chas. W. Smiley (1880)
"The Curtain-ring-cell. Cut out a circular piece of wax, attach it to the slide, place a curtain-ring upon it, soften the wax by heat until the ring is ..."

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