<span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> <span class="searchmatch">lectures</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> <span class="searchmatch">lecture</span>...
allusion to the curtains that hung around old-fashioned beds. <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> <span class="searchmatch">lecture</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> <span class="searchmatch">lectures</span>) A scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed. 1649...
curtainlike <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> off <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span>-raise <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> raiser <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span>-raiser <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> ring <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> rod <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span>-sider, curtainsider <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> time <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> twitcher <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span>-twitcher...
t͡ʃə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃɚ/ Rhymes: -ɛktʃə(ɹ) <span class="searchmatch">lecture</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">lectures</span>) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group. During...
κρε‧βα‧το‧μουρ‧μού‧ρα κρεβατομουρμούρα • (krevatomourmoúra) f (colloquial) <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> <span class="searchmatch">lecture</span> (scolding or grumbling by a wife to her husband in bed) Η γυναίκα του...
couples have “firkytoodled” for years, and “ribs” (wives) have given “<span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> <span class="searchmatch">lectures</span>” (chastisements issued to world—weary husbands at bedtime) for millennia...
bedsermoen n (plural bedsermoenen, diminutive bedsermoentje n) (obsolete) <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span> <span class="searchmatch">lecture</span> (scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed) 1906 March 16, “De...
Referring to Pythagorean disciples who for years listened to his <span class="searchmatch">lectures</span> from behind a <span class="searchmatch">curtain</span>, unable to see him. (music) Referring to pre-recorded music...
blith, and debonair. 1932, John Buchan, chapter IV, in The Gap in the <span class="searchmatch">Curtain</span>: Claypole, the buxom novelist,...[his] bubbling utterances.... 1896, Thomas...
the Scotland and England which my Father Knew; Ariadne Florentina: Six <span class="searchmatch">Lectures</span> on Wood and Metal Engraving given before the University of Oxford, in Michaelmas...