curtain

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[edit] English

Girl surrounded by curtains

[edit] Etymology

From Old French cortine, from Latin cortina.

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Singular
curtain

Plural
curtains

curtain (plural curtains)

  1. A piece of cloth covering a window to keep the sun from shining inside.
  2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
  3. (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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 [...].

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to curtain

Third person singular
curtains

Simple past
curtained

Past participle
curtained

Present participle
curtaining

to curtain (third-person singular simple present curtains, present participle curtaining, simple past and past participle curtained)

  1. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

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