English Dictionary

curtain

/ˈkɜːtn̩/

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.

I closed the curtain to block out the sunlight.

意味（1）

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

意味（2）

A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[…]will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday[…]that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]”

意味（3）

(theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.

He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.

意味（4）

(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220: Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].

意味（5）

(euphemistic, also "final curtain", sometimes in the plural) Death.

For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.

意味（6）

(architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

意味（7）

(obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.

Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose