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noun
1.
a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc.
2.
a movable or folding screen used for similar purposes.
3.
Chiefly New England. a window shade.
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Theater.
a.
a set of hanging drapery for concealing all or part of the stage or set from the view of the audience.
b.
the act or time of raising or opening a curtain at the start of a performance: an 8:30 curtain.
c.
the end of a scene or act indicated by the closing or falling of a curtain: first-act curtain.
d.
an effect, line, or plot solution at the conclusion of a performance: a strong curtain; weak curtain.
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music signaling the end of a radio or television performance.
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(used as a direction in a script of a play to indicate that a scene or act is concluded.)
5.
EXPANDanything that shuts off, covers, or conceals: a curtain of artillery fire.
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Architecture. a relatively flat or featureless extent of wall between two pavilions or the like.
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Fortification. the part of a wall or rampart connecting two bastions, towers, or the like.
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COLLAPSEcurtains, Slang. the end; death, especially by violence: It looked like curtains for another mobster.
verb (used with object)
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to provide, shut off, conceal, or adorn with, or as if with, a curtain.
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Curtains
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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draw the curtain on/over,
a.
to bring to a close: to draw the curtain on a long career of public service.
b.
to keep secret.
11.
lift the curtain on,
a.
to commence; start.
b.
to make known or public; disclose: to lift the curtain on a new scientific discovery.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English co(u)rtine < Anglo-French, Old French < Late Latin cortīna, probably equivalent to co(ho)rt- (stem of cohors; see court) + -īna -ine1, as calque of Greek aulaía curtain, derivative of aulḗ courtyard
1250–1300; Middle English co(u)rtine < Anglo-French, Old French < Late Latin cortīna, probably equivalent to co(ho)rt- (stem of cohors; see court) + -īna -ine1, as calque of Greek aulaía curtain, derivative of aulḗ courtyard
Related forms
cur·tain·less, adjective
un·cur·tained, adjective
Synonyms
1. drapery, portiere, lambrequin, valance. 1, 3. Curtain, blind, shade, shutter agree in being covers for a window, to shut out light or keep persons from looking in. Curtain, blind, and shade may mean a cover, usually of cloth, which can be rolled up and down inside the window. Curtain, however, may also refer to a drapery at a window; and a Venetian blind consists of slats mounted on tapes for drawing up or down and varying the pitch of the slats. Blind and shutter may mean a cover made of two wooden frames with movable slats, attached by hinges outside a window and pulled together or opened at will. Shutters may mean also a set of panels (wooden or iron) put up outside small shops or stores at closing time.
1. drapery, portiere, lambrequin, valance. 1, 3. Curtain, blind, shade, shutter agree in being covers for a window, to shut out light or keep persons from looking in. Curtain, blind, and shade may mean a cover, usually of cloth, which can be rolled up and down inside the window. Curtain, however, may also refer to a drapery at a window; and a Venetian blind consists of slats mounted on tapes for drawing up or down and varying the pitch of the slats. Blind and shutter may mean a cover made of two wooden frames with movable slats, attached by hinges outside a window and pulled together or opened at will. Shutters may mean also a set of panels (wooden or iron) put up outside small shops or stores at closing time.
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