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draw curtain

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noun

Theater.
  1. a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.


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Besides picture windows and a cozy fireplace, the house has a small bedroom separated by a draw curtain from the living room.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a red draw curtain, footlights made with candles and biscuit tins, and so strung on a wire that at a pull, between the acts, they could be turned on the spectators.

From Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them by Ruhl, Arthur

The English draw curtain is admirable for this purpose.

From American Cookery November, 1921 by Hill, Janet McKenzie

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