2. Noun. (figuratively in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show) An end, death ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of curtain) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curtains
1. curtain [v] - See also: curtain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtains
Literary usage of Curtains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"98), where he says, '* the golden doorways are ornamented with curtains white as
snow." Such curtains wore suspended by iron or bronze rings, the remains of ..."
2. Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1855)
"7 The eleven curtains of goats' hair. 14 The covering of rams' skins. ...
MOREOVER thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"У8), where he says, "the golden doorways are i ornamented with curtains white as
snow." Such curtains were suspended by iron or bronze rings, the remains of ..."
4. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography by Virginia Historical Society (1893)
"The furniture, curtains and vallens, I would have new, but the bed at second
hand, because I am informed new ones are very full of dust. ..."
5. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1907)
"Miflin window curtains & sundries, Casper Hiener a cask with wine, Philip Wager
2 casks with flour, Nich. Kibble 2 casks with flour, Joseph Karr meal, ..."
6. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1906)
"curtains AND ALTAR CLOTHS • fact that they do not represent merely the local ...
ALTAR CLOTHS AND CHURCH curtains The foregoing may give an idea of the ..."
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