curtain

curtain

englanti
  1. verho

  2. esirippu

  3. kurtiini

Liittyvät sanat: shower curtain

Synonyymisanakirja

curtain

kaihdin, suoja, rullaverho, sälekaihdin, verho, verhot, väliverho, köynnöskoriste, koristeköynnös, sisustus.

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Englannin sanakirja

curtain (englanti > suomi)

  1. verho

  2. esirippu

  3. verhota

curtain englanniksi

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

  2. (RQ:BLwnds TLdgr)

  3. Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
  4. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

  5. {{quote-book|year=1905|author=w:Emma Orczy|Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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

  7. (RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:

  8. 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. puhekieltä death Death.

  10. 1979, (w), (w)

  11. For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
  12. puhekieltä That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

  13. puhekieltä A flag; an ensign.

  14. (rfquotek)

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

  16. 1985, (w), "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls" in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 163,

  17. The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention.
  18. puhekieltä To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

  19. c. 1593, (w), (w), Act II, Scene 2, http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=titus&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl

  20. And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And 'curtaind' with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the others arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;
  21. 1840, (w), "(w)" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5428/5428-h/5428-h.htm

  22. But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.
  23. 1958, (w), The (w), translated by (w), New York: Viking, Book IV, Perseus, p. 115,

  24. 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.
  25. 2003, (w), The Liberated Bride (2001), translated by (w), Harcourt, Part 2, Chapter 17, p. 115,

  26. But bleakness still curtained the gray horizon.

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