curtain

curtain

curtain (third-person singular simple present curtains, present participle curtaining, simple past and past participle curtained)

1. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

curtain (plural curtains)

1. A piece of cloth covering a window to keep the sun from shining inside.
2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
3. (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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 [...].

4. (euphemistic, also ""final curtain"") death
   • 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

     For life is quite absurd

     And deaths the final word

     You must always face the curtain with a bow.

	tenda
	piece of cloth covering a window
	A piece of cloth covering a window to keep the sun from shining inside.

	sipario
	piece of cloth in a theater

cortina

	Sipario
	Sipario (romanzo)
	curtain (novel)

	drappo
	piece of cloth covering a window

	tappezzeria
	piece of cloth covering a window

tela

tendina

Altri significati:

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

to cover with a curtain

(euphemism, also "final curtain") death

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

To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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