Examples of curtain

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The walls are bare of pictures, the windows denuded of their curtains, and the furniture has been gathered into a corner 'as if for sale'.
He also brought a complete kitchen unit, a gas-cooker, heavy curtains for every room and a ten-volume encyclopaedia for his children.
On each side of this, hung blue-and-white check curtains, which were now drawn, to shut in the friends met to enjoy themselves.
The light comes right through our curtains and makes sleeping difficult.
The fact they were in an enclosed room or curtained environment made them feel comfortable and unexposed.
No curtains, frills, or decorations, or worldly objects like clothes, jewels, and mirrors, were allowed.
Lines, cords, pulleys, and counterweights "activated an elaborate system of screens, shutters and curtains positioned at both sources" of light (skylights and windows).
The short, round man who came through the curtains at the back of the store uttered the name preciously as might an old woman.
In place of the more usual curtains, folding solid panels form the screening around the consultant's couch and project a less clinical atmosphere.
By this date the recording machinery was kept behind curtains or screens.
Don't forget, you will need an extra. 5 metre for the hem and heading for the curtains.
Finally, the window and curtains are a liminal threshold through which the sun attempts to intrude.
She appears to be suffering hysteria or suffocation, and this feeling of oppression is carried through in the crowded pictorial space and heavy curtains.
The sewing sector produces wedding gowns, other clothing, linen and curtains.
I'm in my bed, in the little room with the blue curtains.
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