English Dictionary

curtain

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɜːtn̩/

名詞

広義 婉語 複数形 廃用 時々 軽蔑的

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.

日本語の意味

窓やベッドなどを覆い、プライバシーを確保し光を遮るための布製のカバー。 / 劇場などで、舞台と観客席を仕切るための布や幕。

She drew the thick curtain to block the evening light and make the room feel cozier.

彼女は厚いカーテンを引いて夕方の光を遮り、部屋をより居心地よくした。

意味（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.

意味（2）

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

“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[…]will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday[…]that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]”

意味（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.

意味（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 […].

意味（5）

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

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

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

(obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.

Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose

curtains （ plural ）