curtain

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old French cortine, from Latin cortina.

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: kû(r)'tən, IPA: /ˈkɜː(r)tən/, SAMPA: /"k3:(r)t@n/
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  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)tən

[edit] Noun

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 [...].

[edit] Related terms

• curtain call
• final curtain

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[edit] Verb

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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• blind
• drape
• Curtain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia