curtain

Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːtn̩/

The English word “curtain” has 11 meanings listed here.

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.
The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
Death, final curtain.
That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
A flag; an ensign.
The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
A haircut combining a long fringe on either side of a center part or sometimes off-center, with the sides and the back kept short.

Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.

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