Meanings
- not comparableCovered or partitioned with a curtain or curtains.
There was just room between the sofa and the curtained wall […]
1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 7, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 19983 more examples
Golden head by golden head, / Like to pigeons in one nest / Folded in each other's wings, / They lay down in their curtained bed:
1862, Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, lines 184–7[…] as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr. Enfield's tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures.
1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeThe wall and door of the compartment on the corridor side are of plexiglass, fully curtained on the inside.
1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141Antonyms: curtainless, uncurtained
- figurativelynot comparableHidden or separated as if by a curtain.
Now o'er the one halfworld / Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse / The curtain'd sleep;
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]Synonyms: shrouded
- in compoundsnot comparableHung with a curtain or curtains of the specified type.
[…] the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom […]
1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 6, in The Age of Innocence2 more examples
And in his sedgy bed the lark, for joy that Day is nigh, / Scatters the pearléd dew from off the grass, / In tremulous ecstasy to greet the sun, / Who soon in gilded panoply will pass / Forth from yon orange-curtained pavilion / Hung in the burning east, […]
1881, Oscar Wilde, “The Garden of Eros”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, pages 33–34Little grocery shops and bakeries stood between jewelers and florists and bead-curtained doors opening into private houses […]
1997, Philip Pullman, chapter 1, in The Subtle Knife, Alfred A. Knopf, published 2002 - not comparableHaving a curtain hairstyle.
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of curtain
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCovered or partitioned with a curtain or curtains.
adjectiveHidden or separated as if by a curtain.
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