OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3181

curtain

/ˈkɜːtn̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cortina
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep.
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last ano…
telón
A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[…]will prove a good burlesq…
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