curtain off meaning

• Verb: curtain off
  1. Separate by means of a curtain

  Derived forms: curtaining off, curtained off, curtains off

  Type of: close off, shut off

• curtain sth off:    [American slang]to ...
• curtain:    Noun: curtain  ...
• curtain board, draft curtain:    [Architecture]A su ...

Examples

1. we can curtain off each bed in the hospital
2. take the curtains off their hooks
3. The biting wind prematurely blew the curtain off the dedication stone.
4. Jayne wakes up and pulls the curtain off of his weapons compartment, but just uses it as a blanket and returns to sleep.
5. The head cook ceremoniously tosses a horsehair-reinforced pancake over a high bar, which was used from the 16th century to curtain off the Under School from the Great School.