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Definition of Safety curtain
1. Noun. A fireproof theater curtain to be dropped in case of fire.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Safety Curtain
Literary usage of Safety curtain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Baths and Wash-houses: A Treatise on Their Planning, Design by Alfred William Stephens Cross (1906)
"An inscription of the following nature must be exhibited on the fire curtain—"
safety curtain." The notice to be exhibited in sufficiently large letters ..."
2. Maktoub: A Romance of French North Africa by Matthew Craig (1918)
"... The safety curtain And Other Stories By Ethel M. Dell Author of "The Way of
an Eagle," "The Knave of Diamonds," "The Rocks of ..."
3. The Bookman (1910)
"The London fire department insists that, in every theatre, the safety curtain
shall be lowered and raised between the acts in order to prove to the audience ..."
4. The Subways and Tunnels of New York, Methods and Costs: With an Appendix on by Gilbert Haskell Gilbert, Lucius Irving Wightman, William Lawrence Saunders (1912)
"A drop safety curtain, i foot 6 inches deep and f of an inch thick, was fixed
along the roof of each chamber. The cutting edge was of cast steel, ..."
5. The Subways and Tunnels of New York, Methods and Costs: With an Appendix on by Gilbert Haskell Gilbert, Lucius Irving Wightman, William Lawrence Saunders (1912)
"A drop safety curtain, i foot 6 inches deep and § of an inch thick, was fixed
along the roof of each chamber. The cutting edge was of cast steel, ..."
6. New York Tunnel Extension, the Pennsylvania Railroad: Description of the by American Society of Civil Engineers (1910)
"The doors wer. hinged to open backward from the shields, because, if th. tunnel was
flooded for any depth abov. the bottom of the safety curtain ..."
7. The Life of Henry Irving by Austin Brereton (1908)
"In vain was the safety curtain lowered. Hundreds of people remained shouting and
applauding until the actor, having changed from his Becket costume to ..."
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