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curtain
curtain is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
- 2noun
That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
- 3noun
That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- 4noun
A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
- 5transitive verb
To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
- 6noun
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- 7noun
any barrier to communication or vision
"a curtain of secrecy"
"a curtain of trees"
- 8verb
provide with drapery
"curtain the bedrooms"
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