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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Curtain (0.00987 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to Curtain.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: curtain tirai
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: curtain gorden, korden, tabir, tirai
English → English (WordNet) Definition: curtain curtain n 1: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: drape, drapery, mantle, pall] 2: any barrier to communication or vision; “a curtain of secrecy”; “a curtain of trees” curtain v : provide with drapery; “curtain the bedrooms”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Curtain Curtain \Cur"tain\ (k[^u]r"t[i^]n; 48), n. [OE.cortin, curtin,fr. OF. cortine, curtine, F. courtine, LL. cortina, curtian (in senses 1 and 2), also, small court, small inclosure surrounded by walls, from cortis court. See Court.] [1913 Webster] 1. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage. [1913 Webster] 2. (Fort.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. [1913 Webster] 3. (Arch.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc. [1913 Webster] 4. A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Behind the curtain, in concealment; in secret. Curtain lecture, a querulous lecture given by a wife to her husband within the bed curtains, or in bed. --Jerrold. [1913 Webster] A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. --W. Irving. The curtain falls, the performance closes. The curtain rises, the performance begins. To draw the curtain, to close it over an object, or to remove it; hence: (a) To hide or to disclose an object. (b) To commence or close a performance. To drop the curtain, to end the tale, or close the performance. [1913 Webster] Curtain \Cur"tain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curtained (k[^u]r"t[i^]nd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Curtaining.] To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. [1913 Webster] So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

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