French translation of 'curtain'
noun
le rideau masc (PL les rideaux)
to draw the curtains tirer les rideaux
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Protect them from the sun with old net curtains or horticultural fleece.
Perhaps a curtain or two.
So no curtains just yet.
My lace curtains are useless.
You drew the curtains on the unearthly snowy light and asked me to get into my bed for a while.
And why does returning behind the curtain at the end seem a loss?
It has dragged back the curtains of musical theatre and muscled its way on to the classical podium.
The right medication will feel like opening the curtains on a dark room and letting the sunlight flood in.
Only members of the older generation would now draw the curtains in their front room if a neighbour or relative had died.
They climbed up the drawing-room windows and sat at the top of the curtains.
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They took 23 curtain calls.
Two figures moved behind the thin curtain.
We therefore had to contrive a very large black-out curtain.
You must have been on stage until the final curtain.
a curtain acts as a divider between this class and another
a curtain of cigarette smoke
a curtain of fire
a curtain of secrecy
a curtain rail
a hand snaked out of the curtain
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curtain
British English: curtain
/ˈkɜːtn/ NOUN
Curtains are hanging pieces of material which you can pull across a window to keep light out or prevent people from looking in.
She drew the curtains in her bedroom.
- American English: curtain /ˈkɜrtən/
- Arabic: سِتَارَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: cortina
- Chinese: 窗帘
- Croatian: zavjesa
- Czech: závěs
- Danish: gardin
- Dutch: gordijn
- European Spanish: cortina
- Finnish: verho
- French: rideau
- German: Vorhang
- Greek: κουρτίνα
- Italian: tenda
- Japanese: カーテン
- Korean: 커튼
- Norwegian: gardin
- Polish: zasłona
- European Portuguese: cortina
- Romanian: perdea
- Russian: занавеска
- Latin American Spanish: cortina
- Swedish: gardin
- Thai: ม่าน
- Turkish: perde
- Ukrainian: штора
- Vietnamese: rèm cửa
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