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curtain

7 definitions • 6 examples
1
a piece of material, especially cloth, that hangs across a window or opening to make a room or part of a room dark or private:

Examples:

to draw (= open or close) the curtains
2
a thick layer of something that makes it difficult to see anything behind it:

Examples:

They could see nothing through the curtain of rain/smoke.
3
the large screen of heavy material in a theatre that separates the stage from the area where people are watching
4
a short or medium-length hairstyle in which hair is parted (= separated) in the middle of the head and falls on each side of the face:

Examples:

The eighties had mullets but in the nineties, it was all about curtains.
5
a piece of cloth or other material that hangs across a window or space to decorate a room or to make it dark or private:

Examples:

In the restaurant, arches covered with beaded curtains divide the room.
6
In a theater, the curtain is a large, movable sheet of heavy material that separates the stage from the area where people are sitting.
7
The curtain is also the time at which a performance begins:

Examples:

The curtain is at 8 o’clock.

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