curtain

IPA: kˈɝtʌn

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.
(theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
(euphemistic, also "final curtain", sometimes in the plural) Death.
(architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
(obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.

Examples of "curtain" in Sentences

Talking with a person behind a curtain is a very different thing from talking face to face.
Either way, though, my shower curtain is holding up so far, and no new tears have occurred to date.
My vinyl shower curtain is covered in mildew right now and cleaning it is the last thing in the world on my list of Things to Do.
The shower curtain is white with huge orange and olive spots, and the shower curtain hooks are decorated with pink and orange balls.
Despite Wednesday's loss to the New York Yankees, they stand a game away from the Fall Classic and the man behind curtain is Big Tex.
Designed by Bauke Knottnerus this curtain is a great piece of conversation, that can also create the illusion of more space in any room.
As the curtain is about to go up on ActII – The Indictments, one awaits the destiny of whomsoever of the WHIGs is a mendacious warmonger.
THE curtain is rung down on an illusion, but it rises again on another, this time, as before, with the look of the absolute Good and True upon it.
When the young girl stepped forward there was that awed hush in the room which usually falls upon an attentive audience when the curtain is about to rise on the crucial act of a dramatic play.
The term iron curtain was used in this sense as early as 1920, and Churchill had used it earlier in a telegram to President Harry Truman, May 12, 1945: An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front.