Synonyms for curtain
ˈkɜr tncur·tain

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1. curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pallnoun

   hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

   Synonyms:
   blanket, mantle, pall, winding-clothes, winding-sheet, drapery, shroud, chimneypiece, cape, mantlepiece, mantelpiece, mantel, chill, cerement, drape, pallium

2. curtainverb

   any barrier to communication or vision

   "a curtain of secrecy"; "a curtain of trees"

   Synonyms:
   drape, drapery, mantle, pall

3. curtainverb

   provide with drapery

   "curtain the bedrooms"

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1. curtainnoun

   Synonyms:
   hanging, drapery, portiere, valance, purdah

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1. List of paraphrases for "curtain":

   rideau, cortina, ferro, sattar, iron, curtains, al-sattar, starr, satar

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1. Van Der Beek:

   I play Donald Trump’s right-hand man, working in Trump Tower, and Evan Peters’ [character] comes in and interviews for a job. I don’t know what else I am allowed to say but I know I can say that. We never see Donald Trump. He’s like Oz. He’s always behind the curtain, but I’m his right-hand man.

2. Winston Churchill:

   From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

3. Margaret Thatcher:

   Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people.

4. Belinda Subraman:

   Night is an abyss at the edge of a footstep, raining anvils in a mercury-retrograde imagination needing chemicals. Fog is a curtain of anticipation. When lifted our way is lit by stars on a high dose of infinity.

5. William Binney:

   Oct 2001, NSA and the US government started adopting procedures, techniques and processes that Soviet Union and Stasi and all countries behind iron curtain were using.