curfew

IPA: kˈɝfju

Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
The time when such restriction begins.
A signal indicating this time.
A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
(historical) A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.
The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.

Examples of "curfew" in Sentences

Apparently Quan is not comfortable with the word "curfew."
For example, right now my curfew is in three hours and I haven't even started.
Being a teenager, I disagree that a curfew is the correct way to go about things.
Oddly enough, we learned about the origin of the word curfew in elementary school.
His suspension from the Cotton Bowl for missing curfew is an incident NFL scouts also will factor into their evaluations.
"We're in a shopping center in Miami where the center had established what they call a curfew, but the theater did not," Welman said.
"The curfew is destroying our business," says Mohammad Hassin, 38, owner of the Saysaban restaurant in the capital's Jadriyah district.
His sentencing and punishment bill, which is now before parliament, will give the courts powers to extend the tag curfew limit from 12 hours a day to 16.
That's beginning to sound more like Iraq, where a curfew is in effect almost four years after the invasion that the CIA director, George Tenet, said would be a "slam dunk."
In the old days, I saw troops trying to warn residents of an impending curfew, unaware that their interpreter was just making small talk because he didn't know what the English word "curfew" meant until he asked me.