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n. Material that hangs in a window or other opening as a decoration, shade, or screen.

n. Something that functions as or resembles a screen, cover, or barrier: the curtain of mist before the mountain; a heavy curtain of artillery fire.

n. The movable screen or drape in a theater or hall that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop.

n. The rising or opening of a theater curtain at the beginning of a performance or act.

n. The time at which a theatrical performance begins or is scheduled to begin.

n. The fall or closing of a theater curtain at the end of a performance or act.

n. The concluding line, speech, or scene of a play or act.

n. The part of a rampart or parapet connecting two bastions or gates.

n. Architecture A curtain wall.

n. Slang The end.

n. Slang Absolute ruin: "If the employee doesn't shape up, it's curtains” ( Business Week).

n. Slang Death.

v. To provide (something) with or as if with a curtain.

v. To shut off (something) with or as if with a curtain.

n. A piece of cloth covering a window to keep the sun from shining inside.

n. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

n. The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.

n. death

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

n. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

n. That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

n. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

n. A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.

v. To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

n. A hanging screen of a textile fabric (or rarely of leather) used to close an opening, as a doorway or an alcove, to shut out the light from a window, and for similar purposes. See blind, shade, portière, lambrequin; also altar-curtain and hanging.

n. Hangings used to shut in or screen a bedstead.

n. Hence Whatever covers or conceals like a curtain or hangings.

n. One of the movable pieces of canvas or other material forming a tent.

n. In fortification, that part of a rampart which is between the flanks of two bastions or between two towers or gates, and bordered with a parapet, behind which the soldiers stand to fire on the covered way and into the moat. See cuts under bastion and crown-work.

n. An ensign or flag.

n. In mycology, same as cortina.

n. A plate in a lock designed to fall over the keyhole as a mask to prevent tampering with the lock.

n. The leaden plate which divides into compartments the large leaden chamber in which sulphuric acid is produced by the oxidation of sulphurous compounds in the ordinary process of manufacture.

To inclose with or as with curtains; furnish or provide with curtains.

n. In hydraul. engm., a woven fabric of brushwood or withes, such as branches of willows, placed in a stream to retard the current and permit the deposition of silt, or to compel scour and remove it.

n. A vertical fold of the mantle within the margins of the valves of certain pelecypods (the pectens).

n. In architecture, a wall which serves as an inclosure rather than as a support. Thus the wall beneath a large window, as in a church, or that between two buttresses which carry the vault and roof without its assistance, is a curtain.

n. any barrier to communication or vision

v. provide with drapery

n. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

"The term “iron curtain” was used in this sense as early as 1920, and Churchill had used it earlier in a telegram to President Harry Truman, May 12, 1945: “An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front."

curtained    curtaining    curtains   

barrier    furnish    provide    supply    render   

complement of the curtain    asbestos curtain    to raise the curtain    the curtain rises    to drop the curtain    to draw the curtain    the curtain falls    auroral curtain    behind the curtain    drape   

curtain call    final curtain   

ravelin    bastion   

curtained    curtaining   

flag    ensign    screen    ridel    riddel    veil    drop    purdah    portière    arras   

Burton    Merton    burton    certain    uncertain   

carpet    drapery    gown    veil    cloth    blanket    skirt    fabric    cloud    cover