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curtain::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
| Type of | blind, furnishing, screen |
| Has types | drop curtain, drop, portiere, shower curtain, theater curtain, theatre curtain, drop cloth, festoon, frontal |
curtain::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | barrier |
a curtain of secrecy.
a curtain of trees.
Examples of curtain
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Windows, doors, curtain poles and stairs were all handmade by a local craftsman.
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Then the little head comes peeking around the shower curtain and looks up at me.
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Whenever a movie is peddling a peek behind the curtain, I'm an interested buyer.
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If direct sun can't be avoided, diffuse the light with a shade or sheer curtain.
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It's so warmly lit by Ben Stanton, you want to move in before the curtain falls.
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At times during the past two years, Obama seemed to believe in the curtain fall.
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The Cowboys, as we saw behind the metallic silver-blue curtain, are people, too.
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Before the curtain falls on his presidency, George W. Bush has something to say.
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They were a powerful force in Iraq, but they were like shadows behind a curtain.
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- Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- Provide with drapery; "curtain the bedrooms"
- Any barrier to communication or vision; "a curtain of secrecy"; "a curtain of trees"
- (curtained) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies; "a curtained alcove"
- A curtain (sometimes known as a drape, mainly in the United States) is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, or drafts, or water in the case of a shower curtain. A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theater that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop.
- A cortina (curtain) is a short piece (20u201360 seconds) of music that is played between tandas at a milonga (tango dance event). The cortina lets the dancers know that the tanda has ended. The partners can then thank each other and return to their own tables, to find a new dance partner at the next tanda. Cortinas are used at many of the milongas in Argentina and Uruguay and increasingly elsewhere.
- Curtain: Poirot's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1975 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year, selling for $7.95.
- In viticulture, the canopy of a grapevine includes the parts of the vine visible aboveground - the trunk, cordon, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruit. ...
- The Curtain Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse located in Curtain Close, Shoreditch (part of the modern London Borough of Hackney), just outside the City of London. It opened in 1577, and continued staging plays until 1622.
