different between curtain vs drap

English

Etymology

From Middle English curteyn, corteyn, cortyn, cortine, from Old French cortine, from Medieval Latin c?rt?na (“curtain”), from Latin cohors (“court, enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??tn?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?tn?/, [?k??n?]
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?n
• Homophone: Kirton

Noun

curtain (plural curtains)

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

   • 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.

2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
3. (theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.

   He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.

4. (fortifications) 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, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].

5. (euphemistic, also "final curtain", sometimes in the plural) 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.

6. (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
7. (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

curtain (third-person singular simple present curtains, present participle curtaining, simple past and past participle curtained)

1. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
   • 1985, Carol Shields, "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls" in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 163,

     The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention.

2. (figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene 2, [2]

     And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;

   • 1840, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry" [3]

     But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.

   • 1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, New York: Viking, Book IV, Perseus, p. 115,

     He saw a rock that pierced the shifting waters / As they stilled, now curtained by the riding / Of the waves, and leaped to safety on it.

   • 2003, A. B. Yehoshua, The Liberated Bride (2001), translated by Hillel Halkin, Harcourt, Part 2, Chapter 17, p. 115,

     But bleakness still curtained the gray horizon.

Synonyms

• becurtain

Translations

See also

• blind
• drape
• curtain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• turacin

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French drap.

Noun

drap (plural draps)

1. (archaic) Cloth.

Etymology 2

See drop.

Verb

drap (third-person singular simple present draps, present participle drapping, simple past and past participle drapped)

1. (Scotland) To drop.

Anagrams

• pard, prad

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin drappus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d?ap/

Noun

drap m (plural draps)

1. cloth; rag

Derived terms

• endrapar

Further reading

• “drap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Late Latin drappus, drappum (“cloth”); compare Italian drappo, French drap.

Noun

drap m

1. drape, cloth
2. linen
3. underwear

Adjective

drap

1. having the color of sand
2. having the color of human skin

French

Etymology

From Late Latin drappus, drappum (“cloth”), first recorded in Frankish ordinances (The Capitularies of Charles the Great). More at drape.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?a/

Noun

drap m (plural draps)

1. sheet, duvet

Related terms

• drapement
• draper
• draperie
• drapier
• être dans de beaux draps
• être dans de sales draps

Descendants

• ? English: drap
• ? Russian: ???? (drap)

Further reading

• “drap” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• drapaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drap/

Verb

drap

1. second-person singular imperative of drapa?

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French drap.

Noun

drap m (plural draps)

1. cloth (textile)

Descendants

• French: drap (see there for further descendants)
• ?? English: drab

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse dráp.

Noun

drap n (definite singular drapet, indefinite plural drap, definite plural drapa or drapene)

1. homicide, killing, murder

Derived terms

• drapsmann
• uaktsomt drap

References

• “drap” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dráp.

Alternative forms

• dråp (non-standard since 2012)

Noun

drap n (definite singular drapet, indefinite plural drap, definite plural drapa)

1. homicide

Derived terms

• drapsmann

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

drap

1. past tense of drepa and drepe

References

• “drap” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• drape, drappe

Etymology

From Late Latin drappus, of Germanic origin.

Noun

drap m (oblique plural dras, nominative singular dras, nominative plural drap)

1. sheet or covering
2. clothing

Descendants

• Middle French: drap
  • French: drap (see there for further descendants)
  • ?? English: drab
• Picard: drâp (Athois)
• Walloon: drap (Liégeois)
• ? Middle English: drape
  • English: drape
  • Scots: drape

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drap/

Verb

drap

1. second-person singular imperative of drapa?