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curtain
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)
- 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.
- A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- (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.
- (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 […].
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
- (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.
- 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- (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)
- 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.
- 1985, Carol Shields, "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls" in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 163,
- (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.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene 2, [2]
Synonyms
- becurtain
Translations
See also
- blind
- drape
- curtain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- turacin
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proscenium
English
Alternative forms
- proscænium
Etymology
From Latin proscaenium (“in front of the scenery”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (prosk?nion), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ????? (sk?n?, “scene building”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p????si?.ni.?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /p?o??si?.ni.?m/
Noun
proscenium (plural prosceniums or proscenia)
- (in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
- (in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
- (in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
- 1936, Roy C. Flickinger, The Greek Theater and Its Drama, 4th edition, page 58
- The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (???, "before"+?????).
- 1936, Roy C. Flickinger, The Greek Theater and Its Drama, 4th edition, page 58
- A proscenium arch.
Coordinate terms
Translations
Danish
Noun
proscenium n (singular definite prosceniet, plural indefinite proscenier)
- proscenium
Inflection
Latin
Alternative forms
- proscaenium
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????????? (prosk?nion), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ????? (sk?n?, “scene building”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pros?ke?.ni.um/, [p??s??ke?ni???]
- (Vulgar) IPA(key): /pros?ke?.ni.u/, [pros?ke?n?u]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro??e.ni.um/, [p??????nium]
Noun
prosc?nium n (genitive prosc?ni? or prosc?n?); second declension
- proscenium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- ? English: proscenium
- French: proscénium
- Italian: proscenio
References
- proscenium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- proscenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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