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 technomom 2004
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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?
Archive 2007-02-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007
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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?
Anti-Valentines: Poems of Love - Sort of Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007
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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 2008
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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 2008
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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 2009
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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.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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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.
michael koehler | tangletown & beyond « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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