curtained meaning: definition, quotations

curtained

adj

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:1862, Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, lines 184–7:
[…] 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.1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

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There was just room between the sofa and the curtained wall […]1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 7, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
The wall and door of the compartment on the corridor side are of plexiglass, fully curtained on the inside.1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:

Figuratively 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;c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

In compounds 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, […]1881, Oscar Wilde, “The Garden of Eros”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, pages 33–34:
[…] the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom […]1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 6, in The Age of Innocence:

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Little grocery shops and bakeries stood between jewelers and florists and bead-curtained doors opening into private houses […]1997, Philip Pullman, chapter 1, in The Subtle Knife, Alfred A. Knopf, published 2002: