Beaded Definition–adjective | ornamented with or largely composed of beads: a beaded handbag. |
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Curtain Definition–noun | 1. | a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc. |
| 2. | a movable or folding screen used for similar purposes. |
| 3. | Chiefly New England. a window shade. |
| 4. | Theater. | a. | a set of hanging drapery for concealing all or part of the stage or se
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| b. | the act or time of raising or opening a curtain at the start of a performance: an 8:30 curtain. |
| c. | the end of a scene or act indicated by the closing or falling of a curtain: first-act curtain. |
| d. | an effect, line, or plot solution at the conclusion of a performance: a strong curtain; weak curtain. |
| e. | music signaling the end of a radio or television performance. |
| f. | (used as a direction in a script of a play to indicate that a scene or act is concluded.) |
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| 5. | anything that shuts off, covers, or conceals: a curtain of artillery fire. |
| 6. | Architecture. a relatively flat or featureless extent of wall between two pavilions or the like. |
| 7. | Fortification. the part of a wall or rampart connecting two bastions, towers, or the like. |
| 8. | curtains, Slang. the end; death, esp. by violence: It looked like curtains for another mobster. |
–verb (used with object) | 9. | to provide, shut off, conceal, or adorn with, or as if with, a curtain. |
—Idioms| 10. | draw the curtain on or over, | a. | to bring to a close: to draw the curtain on a long career of public service. |
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| 11. | lift the curtain on,
| b. | to make known or public; disclose: to lift the curtain on a new scientific discovery. |
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