CURTAIN

Curtain

A curtain 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.

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curtain

Noun

  1. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
  2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
  3. The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
  4. death
  5. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
  6. A flag; an ensign.

Verb

  1. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.


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