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curtain | American Dictionary

curtain
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɜr·tən/
a piece of cloth or other material that hangs across a window or space to decorate a room or to make it dark or private:
In the restaurant, arches covered with beaded curtains divide the room.
In a theater, the curtain is a large, movable sheet of heavy material that separates the stage from the area where people are sitting.
The curtain is also the time at which a performance begins:
The curtain is at 8 o’clock.

Examples of curtain

curtain
In winter, when the curtains are drawn, visitors must make their way to the more-formally defined front door protected in the corner of the building.
The tour acts to both temporarily reclaim the streets and acknowledge the presence of the current inhabitants who watch warily behind drawn curtains.
As a result, it suffers from the poor reflectivity of certain object surfaces (such carpets, curtains, and cardboard) which absorb and diffuse ultrasonic waves.
I would get them out from behind their curtains and working to make this a better place.
In the dream it is daytime, and sunlight is streaming through the curtains.
The transition from one space into the other, separated by the curtains, lacks definition.
They bought smart new terrace houses and decked them out with clocks, curtains, mirrors, paintings and easy chairs.
The glass curtains are the most visible parts of our intervention.
The primary metaphor for the design of the glass curtains is 'building-as-landscape'.
Ironically in a country where net curtains seem obligatory, this affords a privacy to the occupants beyond the facade.
The sacred -ame ascended and the curtains parted.
As he strokes the rich fabrics, his dirt rubs off onto the bed, the dressing table 'toilette-cloth', and the curtains.
The explanation is that there were two curtains.
There are no wings, no doors, no curtains.
The curtains move as if they wanted to say something.
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Collocations withcurtain

curtain

These are words often used in combination with curtain.

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final curtain
His finalcurtain call was the tumble he took off his toilet, naked and with the hypodermic needle still stuck in his arm.
lace curtain
He has had sufficient advice and criticism cascading down on him to make his code look about as substantial as a lacecurtain.
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