contour curtain meaning

• [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.

• contour:    Noun: contour  ...
• curtain:    Noun: curtain  ...
• bathymetric contour:    [Defence] See dept ...

Examples

1. "The Crosstown is said to have the only contour curtain in the territory.