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curtained

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Covered or partitioned with a curtain or curtains.

    “Golden head by golden head, / Like to pigeons in one nest / Folded in each other's wings, / They lay down in their curtained bed:”

    “[…] 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.”

  2. Hidden or separated as if by a curtain.

    “Now o'er the one halfworld / Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse / The curtain'd sleep;”

  3. Hung with a curtain or curtains of the specified type.

    “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, […]”

    “[…] the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom […]”

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of curtain