curtain

  1. Noun.  A piece of cloth covering a window to keep the sun from shining inside.
  2. Noun.  A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
  3. Noun.  (context, fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
  4. Noun.  (euphemistic, also "final curtain") death.
  5. Verb.  To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

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