curtain
/ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/ noun B1- A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light. · He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep.
- A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises. · He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.
- The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
- Death, final curtain.
- That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
- A haircut combining a long fringe on either side of a center part or sometimes off-center, with the sides and the back kept short.
Plural curtains
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He slipped into this room because it was the first he came to, and he hid behind the curtain.
The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of—as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy—going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,—is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.
But see!” Barker drew aside the curtain, and showed that the long, diamond-paned window was open to its full extent.
But the curtain screened it, as you can see, and so it never occurred to me.
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