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curtain

Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek. (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɜːtn̩/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/, [ˈkʰɜɹʔn̩] Homophone: Kirton Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tən Hyphenation: cur‧tain curtain (plural curtains) A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater. (theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises. He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry. (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall. , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220: Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […]. (euphemistic, also "final curtain", sometimes in the plural) Death. (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc. (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign. The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating. curtain (third-person singular simple present curtains, present participle curtaining, simple past and past participle curtained) (transitive) To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains. (transitive, figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain. becurtain blind drape curtain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia turacin