Definitions for curtains

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curtains cur·tain

Spelling: [kur-tn]

IPA: /ˈkɜr tn/

Curtains is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 433 anagrams from letters in curtains (acinrstu).

Definitions for curtains

noun

1. a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc.
2. a movable or folding screen used for similar purposes.
3. Chiefly New England. a window shade.
4. Theater. a set of hanging drapery for concealing all or part of the stage or set from the view of the audience. the act or time of raising or opening a curtain at the start of a performance: the end of a scene or act indicated by the closing or falling of a curtain: an effect, line, or plot solution at the conclusion of a performance: music signaling the end of a radio or television performance. (used as a direction in a script of a play to indicate that a scene or act is concluded.)
5. anything that shuts off, covers, or conceals:
6. Architecture. a relatively flat or featureless extent of wall between two pavilions or the like.
7. Fortification. the part of a wall or rampart connecting two bastions, towers, or the like.
8. curtains, Slang. the end; death, especially by violence:

Idioms

1. draw the curtain on / over, to bring to a close: to keep secret.
2. lift the curtain on, to commence; start. to make known or public; disclose:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide, shut off, conceal, or adorn with, or as if with, a curtain.

Origin of curtains

1250-1300; Middle English co(u)rtine Anglo-French, Old French Late Latin cortīna, probably equivalent to co(ho)rt- (stem of cohors; see court) + -īna Examples for curtains

The site was blacked out at all times, with curtains and painted exterior windows.

Other than a glimpse of the curtains, little of the Cambridges' renovated Kensington Palace home can be seen in the photograph.

In her sleep she had seen it gliding among the pale heather-blossoms on her curtains.

He saw her go by, young and alert in the sunshine, and the May air stirred the curtains.

I got up at once, pulled back the curtains, and mumbled my rle while dressing.

The result looks like curtains of red and green beams in the night sky.

Inside, cabinets of bones three rows high are concealed by curtains pinned with ribbons and handwritten messages.

Lady N—— was indifferent to me, and how could I hang up her curtains in my memory?

There are probably no more doors, only curtains, so we shall have no trouble.

In one, a father is upset that his children's clothes are made out of curtains.