curtains
Speech parts
1. curtains - Noun
2. curtains - Verb
Meaning
curtains
plural of curtain
(figuratively, in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show) An end or death.
It's curtains for you!
"What if a bunch of scuba divers nosed about here?" / "Curtains for them, when our side-scan sonar sees them."
(colloquial, oenology) A ring of clear liquid, forming into drops, near the top of a glass of fortified wine; the result of differential evaporation of alcohol and subsequent changes in surface tension; an example of the Marangoni effect.
curtains
third-person singular simple present indicative of curtain
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18. Also, my sister Jo Lynn told me that she saw Terry wash clothes, bed linens and curtains from Stevie's room at an odd time around the time of the Murders.
A few restaurants and bars catered to tourists who could pass weathered empty homes with lace curtains hanging in broken windows.
And another said: “Global warming has already faded my lounge room curtains.”
And even though it was November and all the windows were shut, the curtains and blankets in her room had fluttered.
Blue and purple emissions, typically at the lower edges of the "curtains", show up at the highest levels of solar activity. citation The molecular nitrogen transitions are much faster than the atomic oxygen ones.
As she settled into the caravan park, Lady Jude admitted she wasn't used to being in such close quarters with other people, saying she could hear creaking beds in the nights and see her neighbours looking in when she opened the curtains in the morning.