curtain

Meanings

Noun

• A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
• A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
• The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
• The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
• Death.
• That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
• A flag; an ensign.

Verb

• To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
• To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

Related

Similar words

• becurtain

Origin

• From Middle English curteyn, corteyn, cortyn, cortine, from Old French cortine, from Medieval Latin cōrtīna ("curtain"), from Latin cohors ("court, enclosure").