act curtain, act drop, front curtain, house curtain

Noun: bamboo curtain    bam'boo'kurt(u)n An ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s Derived forms: bamboo curtains Type of: ide...

Away from public view

noun   A curtain hung from a window sash

Noun: closing curtain The concluding part of any performance - finale , close , finis Derived forms: closing curtains Type of: finish , finishing

[Architecture] A theater stage curtain which can be raised in separate folds by individual lines which are attached to its component sections, thereby controlling its shape or contour.

[Building construction] A fire-retardant partition applied to a ceiling.

Noun: curtain call    kurt(u)n kol An appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience - bow ...

[Architecture] The application of paint by passing the object being coated under a continuous falling sheet of paint. ; [Chemical engineering] "A method in which the substrate to be coat...

[Architecture] Same as intercepting drain .

[Architecture] The injection of grouting below the surface, so as to create a mass of grout which is oriented transverse to the direction of anticipated water flow.