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• n  hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
• n  any barrier to communication or vision
  a curtain of secrecy
  a curtain of trees
• v  provide with drapery
  curtain the bedrooms

• Gangs of teen-age "Young Rebels" are painstakingly planting a "cactus curtain" of bayonet grass, a tough century plant with half-inch sawtooth barbs.
• That annoying curtain separating first class from coach on most airplane flights may be facing its own final curtain.
• The Paris Peace Conference, which rang down the final curtain this week, was epitomized in its closing days by a weary, dozing Yugoslav and an iron Russian who apparently never.

• drape
• drapery
• mantle
• pall

News & Articles

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• Detroit Tigers: AL Central leaders have time for a closing discovery
  DETROIT -- The curtain should come down on the Jose Valverde Reunion Tour. The Tigers can't trust him.
  June 14, 2013 - Pioneer Press
• Longtime choir director retires from TC West post
  The curtain is closing on Russ Larimer’s 26-year career as a Traverse City Area Public Schools’ choir teacher and director.
  June 14, 2013 - Traverse City Record-Eagle
• Louisville Designer Curtain Store Announces Partnership with Details Home Renovation Showcase
  The Curtain Exchange, a seller of designer curtains in Louisville, KY, has partnered with Details Consulting Group and RPO Custom Homes for a home renovation showcase. (PRWeb June 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/designercurtains/homerenovationshowcase/prweb10816893.htm
  June 10, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Ferenc Gyurcsany in ABC News
  We should not allow that a new Iron Curtain should be set up and divide Europe,Gyurcsany told reporters.
• Dan Rooney in Forbes
  Ernie was one of the toughest players to ever wear a Steelers uniform,Steelers chairman Dan Rooney said in a statement. "He was a key member of our famous Steel Curtain defense, and many people who played against him considered Ernie...
• George HW Bush in Wall Street Journal
  In 1992, President George HW Bush told a Houston rally when he went to the Oval Office he expected to find Democratic candidate Bill Clinton "there measuring the drapes. Put those drapes on hold, it's going to be curtain time."