Curtain

Noun

 * 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)  The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
 * 4)  death

Verb

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

Adjectives for Curtain
dirty; cloudless; azure; sinister; black; accordion-pleated; ruffled; embroidered; jeweled gingham; crisp; bright; chintz; gaily-colored; heavy; felt; wry old; rich-toned; cheerful; skimpy; hanging triangular; strong; final; gray; cloudy dimity; wadded; clinging; billowy; improvised; sunshiny; undrawn; jonquil; silk blue; light-pierced; dusky; exasperating crimson; luminous; dazzling; impalpable tawdry; convenient; sun-lace; formless tattered; tailing; flapping; wavering; honey-colored; roseate;

Verbs
adjust—; close—; draw—; drop—; emerge from—; fade behind—; hide behind—; lift—; lower—; peep through—; spread—; stretch out—; —flutters; —protects; — quivers; —shades; —sways.

Thesaurus
cloak, cloth, clothe, cloud, coat, coda, conceal, conclusion, consummation, contravallation, cope, cordon, coulisse, counterscarp, counterweight, cover, cover up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, crack of doom, culmination, curtain board, curtain call, curtain raiser, curtains, cyclorama, death, decease, decor, demibastion, denouement, destination, destiny, determent, deterrent, difficulty, dike, disguise, dissemble, distract attention from, divertimento, divertissement, doom, drape, drapery, draw the curtains, drawback, drawbridge, drop, drop curtain, earthwork, eclipse, effect, enclosure, end, end point, ending, ensconce, enshroud, entanglement, envelop, envoi, epilogue, escarp, escarpment, eschatology, exode, exodus, expiration, expository scene, fate, fence, fieldwork, film, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, fire curtain, flat, flipper, fortalice, fortification, glacis, gloss over, goal, guise, hang-up, hanging, hazard, hide, hitch, hoke act, hood, housing, hurdle, hush-up, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, iron curtain, ironbound security, izzard, joker, keep under cover, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, lay on, lay over, light shield, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, mantle, mask, merlon, mound, muffle, number, oath of secrecy, obduce, obfuscate, objection, obscure, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occult, official secrecy, omega, one small difficulty, outwork, overlay, overshadow, overspread, palisade, pall, parados, parapet, parasol, payoff, period, peroration, portcullis, postern gate, prologue, put on, quietus, rag, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, repression, resolution, resting place, routine, rub, sally port, scarp, scene, scenery, sconce, screen, scum, seal of secrecy, security, shade, shader, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, shtick, shutter, side scene, sketch, skit, slur over, smothering, snag, song and dance, spread over, stage screw, stand-up comedy act, stifling, stockade, stoppage, stopping place, striptease, stumbling block, stumbling stone, sunblind, sunshade, superimpose, superpose, suppression, swan song, tab, tableau, teaser, tenaille, term, terminal, termination, terminus, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene, turn, umbrella, vallation, vallum, varnish, veil, veil of secrecy, vestment, whitewash, windup, wing, wingcut, woodcut, work, wraps, abatis, act, act drop, advanced work, afterpiece, apodosis, apply to, asbestos, asbestos board, awning, backdrop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, barrier of secrecy, bartizan, bastion, batten, battlement, beach umbrella, becloud, befog, bit, blackout, blanket, blind, block, blockade, border, bottleneck, breastwork, bulwark, camouflage, canopy, casemate, catastrophe, catch, ceasing, censorship, cessation, chaser, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation,

Etymology
From cortine:, from  cortina:.

Related terms

 * curtain call
 * final curtain

Noun

 * Arabic: ستارة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: перде,
 * Catalan: cortina
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 窗簾, 窗帘
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ფარდა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: परदा
 * Icelandic:, gardína
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 커튼
 * Kurdish:


 * Latvian: aizkars
 * Lithuanian: užuolaida
 * Macedonian:, перде
 * Persian:
 * Polish: zasłona
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, draperie, perdele
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cùirtear
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: (Ekavian) завеса, (Ijekavian) завјеса; застор
 * Roman: (Ekavian) zavesa, (Ijekavian) zavjesa; zastor
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: پردہ
 * Welsh: llen, llenni


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: ფარდა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: leikhústjald,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 幕 (まく, maku), 緞帳 (どんちょう, donchō) with vertical move, 引き幕　(ひきまく hikimaku) with horizontal move
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cortină
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cùirtear
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: (Ekavian) завеса, (Ijekavian) завјеса ; застор
 * Roman: (Ekavian) zavesa, (Ijekavian) zavjesa ; zastor
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese: cobrir com cortina, acortinar, encortinar


 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: