curtain : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: curtain	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
curtain n hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) Synonym(s): curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall any barrier to communication or vision; "a curtain of secrecy"; "a curtain of trees" v provide with drapery; "curtain the bedrooms"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Curtain \Cur"tain\ (k?r"t?n; 48), n. [OE. cortin, curtin,fr. OF. cortine, curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian (in senses 1 and 2), also, small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis court. See {Court}.] 1. 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. 2. (Fort.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of {Ravelin} and {Bastion}. 3. (Arch.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc. 4. A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. [Obs.] --Shak. {Behind the curtain}, in concealment; in secret. {Curtain lecture}, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. --Jerrold. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. --W. Irving. {The curtain falls}, the performance closes. {The curtain rises}, the performance begins. {To draw the curtain}, to close it over an object, or to remove it; hence: (a) To hide or to disclose an object. (b) To commence or close a performance. {To drop the curtain}, to end the tale, or close the performance.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Curtain \Cur"tain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curtained} (-t?nd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Curtaining}.] To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red. --Milton.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Curtain (1.) Ten curtains, each twenty-eight cubits long and four wide, made of fine linen, also eleven made of goat's hair, covered the tabernacle (Ex. 26:1-13; 36:8-17). (2.) The sacred curtain, separating the holy of holies from the sanctuary, is designated by a different Hebrew word (peroketh). It is described as a "veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work" (Ex. 26:31; Lev. 16:2; Num. 18:7). (3.) "Stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain" (Isa. 40:22), is an expression used with reference to the veil or awning which Orientals spread for a screen over their courts in summer. According to the prophet, the heavens are spread over our heads as such an awning. Similar expressions are found in Ps. 104:2l; comp. Isa. 44:24; Job 9:8.