curtain

noun

• 1a piece of material suspended at the top to form a screen, typically movable sideways along a rail and found as one of a pair at a window:she drew the curtains and lit the fire figurativethrough the curtain of falling snow, she could just make out gravestones

• 2 (the curtain) a screen of heavy cloth or other material that can be raised or lowered at the front of a stage: he wants to see you directly the curtain comes down
• a raising or lowering of the curtain at the beginning or end of an act or scene:the art is to hold your audience right from the opening curtain

• 3 (curtains) informal a disastrous outcome:it looked like curtains for me

verb

• provide with a curtain or curtains:a curtained window
• conceal or screen with a curtain:a curtained-off side room