curtain
1. cur.tain \'k*rt-*n\ n [ME curtine, fr. OF, fr. LL cortina, fr. L
cohort-, cohors] enclosure, court 1: a hanging screen usu. capable of being
drawn back or up; esp : w indow drapery 2: a device or agency that conceals
or acts as a barrier 3a: the part of a bastioned front that connects two
neighboring bastions 3b1: a similar stretch of plain wall 3b2: a
nonbearing exterior wall 4a: the screen separating the stage from the
auditorium of a theater 4b: the ascent of the curtain at the beginning of
a play or its descent at the end of a scene or act 4c: the final situation
or line of an act or the closing scene of a play pl 4d: END; esp : DEATH
2. curtain \'k*rt-nin, -*n-in\ vt or cur.tain.ing 1: to furnish with
curtains 2: to veil or shut off with a curtain