CURTAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curtained mean? 

• CURTAINED (adjective)
  The adjective CURTAINED has 1 sense:

1. furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies

  Familiarity information: CURTAINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURTAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies

Context example:

a curtained alcove

Similar:

draped (covered in folds of cloth)

Antonym:

curtainless (not provided with curtains)

 Context examples 

It was an imposing porticoed house at which we stopped, and the heavily-curtained windows gave every indication of wealth upon the part of this formidable Professor.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo saw a big red headed youth approaching her corner, and fearing he meant to engage her, she slipped into a curtained recess, intending to peep and enjoy herself in peace.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We now slowly ascended a drive, and came upon the long front of a house: candlelight gleamed from one curtained bow-window; all the rest were dark.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone; but now his imagination also was engaged, or rather enslaved; and 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.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was not in the coffee-room that I found Steerforth expecting me, but in a snug private apartment, red-curtained and Turkey-carpeted, where the fire burnt bright, and a fine hot breakfast was set forth on a table covered with a clean cloth; and a cheerful miniature of the room, the fire, the breakfast, Steerforth, and all, was shining in the little round mirror over the sideboard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When a seaman did put up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol) he would look in at him through the curtained door before he entered the parlour; and he was always sure to be as silent as a mouse when any such was present.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A bluff cape to the north and a long spit to the south marked the mouth of the noble river, with a low-lying island of silted sand in the centre, all shrouded and curtained by the spume of the breakers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They reached a curtained door, behind which sounded lovely music.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I remember how the solemn feeling with which at length I turned my eyes away, yielded to the sensation of gratitude and rest which the sight of the white-curtained bed—and how much more the lying softly down upon it, nestling in the snow-white sheets!—inspired.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The parlor windows were closed and curtained, no picture of the pretty wife sewing on the piazza, in white, with a distracting little bow in her hair, or a bright-eyed hostess, smiling a shy welcome as she greeted her guest.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)