Definition of Curtain

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Curtain

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.

To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

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Curtain Quotations

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
Groucho Marx

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria Rilke

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Virginia Woolf

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
Grover Cleveland

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
E. B. White

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas

Curtain Translations

curtain in Afrikaans is gordyn
curtain in Danish is gardin
curtain in Dutch is overgordijn, gordijn, scherm, doek
curtain in Finnish is verho
curtain in French is rideau
curtain in German is Vorhang, Gardine
curtain in Italian is cortina, sipario
curtain in Latin is velum
curtain in Norwegian is gardin
curtain in Portuguese is cortina
curtain in Spanish is cortina

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