Noun

(en noun)

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

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Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

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

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

* , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:

Captain Rense'', beleagring the Citie of ''Errona for us,.

Death.

* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)

For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.

(label) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

A flag; an ensign.

(Shakespeare)