Becurtain

Quick meaning: Becurtain is a verb meaning To curtain; bedeck or cover with a curtain; (by extension, figurative) to shroud.

Meaning

To curtain; bedeck or cover with a curtain; (by extension, figurative) to shroud.

Example Sentences

This is because love manifests certain signs beneath and behind the many veils that becurtain it, [...]

She lay becurtained in loose tresses, / Not seeing what her half-dropt zone / Let of her bosom's bower be shown […]

At the back of her neck, the real smell of her hair came out from under the chemical scents of the processes it was subjected to in that be-curtained shop below my office […]

[…] in that large, lofty, fine room, they had a tiny, old-fashioned, becurtained cabinet piano stuck right against the wall, unto which the singer's face was turned, and into which his voice was absorbed.

Word Forms

• becurtains
• becurtaining
• becurtained
• be-curtain

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include encurtain, curtain, beshroud, bedight, bedrape, beveil.

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