curtained — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Covered or partitioned with a curtain or curtains.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Antonyms

   curtainlessuncurtained

   Examples

   Golden head by golden head, / Like to pigeons in one nest / Folded in each other's wings, / They lay down in their curtained bed:

   […] 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.

   More examples (2)

   There was just room between the sofa and the curtained wall […]

   The wall and door of the compartment on the corridor side are of plexiglass, fully curtained on the inside.

2. Hidden or separated as if by a curtain.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   shrouded

   Examples

   Now o'er the one halfworld / Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse / The curtain'd sleep;

3. Hung with a curtain or curtains of the specified type.

   Usage

   • In compounds
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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, […]

   […] the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom […]

   Little grocery shops and bakeries stood between jewelers and florists and bead-curtained doors opening into private houses […]

4. Having a curtain hairstyle.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

Adjective

1. furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies

   Antonyms

   curtainless

   Examples

   a curtained alcove