📖 curtain

A Everyday Objects word — definition from our own bank

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curtain

noun1 senses

  1. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
  2. any barrier to communication or vision“a curtain of secrecy”

See also: drapedraperymantlepall

verb2 sense

  1. provide with drapery“curtain the bedrooms”

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