curtained

English

Verb

curtained

  1. simple past tense and past participle of curtain

Adjective

curtained (not comparable)

  1. Covered or partitioned with a curtain or curtains.
    • 1862, Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market," lines 184-7,
      Golden head by golden head, / Like to pigeons in one nest / Folded in each other's wings, / They lay down in their curtained bed:
    • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
      [] as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr. Enfield's tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures.
    • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1998, Chapter 7,
      There was just room between the sofa and the curtained wall []
    • 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
      The wall and door of the compartment on the corridor side are of plexiglass, fully curtained on the inside.
  2. (figuratively) Hidden or separated as if by a curtain.
  3. (in compounds) Hung with a curtain or curtains of a specified type.
    • 1881, Oscar Wilde, "The Garden of Eros" in Poems, p. 34,
      And in his sedgy bed the lark, for joy that Day is nigh, / Scatters the pearléd dew from off the grass, / In tremulous ecstasy to greet the sun, / Who soon in gilded panoply will pass / Forth from yon orange-curtained pavilion / Hung in the burning east []
    • 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 6, in The Age of Innocence:
      [] the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom []
    • 1997, Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, Chapter One,
      Little grocery shops and bakeries stood between jewelers and florists and bead-curtained doors opening into private houses []
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