Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies. Opposite of
curtainless .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
curtain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies
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Examples
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All along Dale Avenue, you could see the flickering green-and-white lights of televisions in curtained windows, and the quiet cars lining the streets, slowly freezing in the chill night air.
One Last Thought On Intellectual Honesty: The Fallacy Of Infinite Proof
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These conditions, with the nearness of the declivities of the western mountains, and the proximity of the enemy's frontier, behind which movements of troops would be "curtained" -- to use a graphic military metaphor -- gave the
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the belle of half a dozen balls who took a thousand calls curtained, or otherwise is getting wed hitched shackled now ball and chain where once was piece of fluff is it enough, she wonders to really really like?
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the belle of half a dozen balls who took a thousand calls curtained, or otherwise is getting wed hitched shackled now ball and chain where once was piece of fluff is it enough, she wonders to really really like?
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Adjacent to the studiolo-within-a-studiolo is the third "curtained" alcove in the chamber, containing a positive organ made by Juhani Castellano, whose name is inscribed below its keys.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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To the left, in a "curtained" alcove adjacent to Federico's half-scale portrait, we find his armor represented at full-scale, its chain mail glittering.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The cane plantations were "curtained" by rows of densely grown stalks that obscured the lives of the blacks who lived, worked, and died there.
Georgianne Nienaber: The Monkey's Pawn: Monkey Misery Outshines Human Misery in Louisiana's Delta
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The cane plantations were "curtained" by rows of densely grown stalks that obscured the lives of the blacks who lived, worked, and died there.
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PASTOR YOST AND I waited in a curtained room inside a hot revival tent pitched in the middle of an Ohio field.
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I could get used to windows with curtains, or looking through a curtained window to see a pink plastic bucket in a green turtle sandbox.
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