(of curtain)
101curtain speech — /ˈkɜtn spitʃ/ (say kertn speech) noun 1. the final speech in a play or section of a play before the curtain is lowered. 2. a speech made by someone standing in front of the curtain of a theatre …
102curtain shutter — noun : a focal plane photographic shutter * * * Photog. a focal plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of… …
103curtain call — noun Date: 1884 an appearance by a performer (as after the final curtain of a play) in response to the applause of the audience …
104Curtain Wall — Kirchenfassade Mittelalterliche Hausfassade …
105Curtain: Hercule Poirot's Last Case — Hercule Poirot quitte la scène Hercule Poirot quitte la scène (Curtain, c est à dire « Rideau », dans la version originale anglaise) est un roman d’Agatha Christie paru en 1975. Contexte Agatha Christie a écrit ce roman, qui clôt la… …
106curtain twitcher — noun A nosy person who watches his or her neighbours, typically from a curtained window. ...but these self invited guests made her feel like a curtain twitcher of the worst kind and she resented them for it …
107curtain coating — noun A coating process in which an uninterrupted curtain of fluid falls onto a substrate transported underneath it by means of a conveyor belt …
108Curtain — This is an Irish surname of great antiquity. It derives from the pre 12th century Gaelic name MacCuirtin , which like the majority of Irish surnames was originally a nickname for the first chief of the clan. The word cuirtin translates as… …
109curtain wall — cur·tain wall loc.s.f.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} TS arch. nell architettura moderna, parete esterna parzialmente o totalmente vetrata, costituita da pannelli prefabbricati tenuti insieme e sostenuti da sottili intelaiature metalliche {{line}}… …
110curtain — [13] Latin cortīna meant ‘round vessel, cauldron’, but in the 4th century Vulgate we find it being used to translate Greek aulaía ‘curtain’. The reason for this considerable semantic leap seems to have been a link perceived to exist between Greek …
