curtain

Definitions

• A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
• A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
• (theater) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
• (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
• (euphemistic) Death.
• (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
• (obsolete) A flag; an ensign.