curtain

curtain englannista suomeksi

1. verhot

2. panna verhot ikkunaan, verhota

3. verho

0. Substantiivi

1. verho

2. esirippu

2. Verbi

3. verhota

curtain englanniksi

1. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

2. {{RQ:Belloc Lowndes Lodger|I|0016

3. (quote-journal)

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

5. (RQ:Orczy Miss Elliott)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.(nb..)”

6. 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.''

7. The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.

8. (RQ:Montaigne Florio Essaye), 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(nb..).

9. Death.

10. {{quote-text|en|year=1979|author=Monty Python|title=Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

11. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

12. A flag; an ensign.

13. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)

14. The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of coating.

15. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

16. (RQ:Hardy Tess)

17. {{quote-journal|en|year=1985|author=Carol Shields|title=Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls|journal=The Collected Stories|publisher=Random House Canada|year_published=2004|page=163

18. To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

19. (quote-book)

20. (quote-book)|title=The (w)|location=New York|publisher=Viking|section=Book IV, Perseus|page=115|text=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.

21. (quote-book)|title=The Liberated Bride|origyear=2001|publisher=Harcourt|section=Part 2, Chapter 17|page=115|text=But bleakness still curtained the gray horizon.