Le mot anglais du jour

curtain

rideau

Définitions

anglais > français
curtain
1. n. Rideau.
anglais > anglais
curtain
1. n. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
2. n. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
3. n. (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
4. n. (euphemistic, also "final curtain") Death.
5. n. (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
6. n. (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
7. v. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
8. v. (figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
français > anglais
rideau
1. n-m. curtain (woven fabric to cover, e.g., windows)
2. n-m. blind (cover for windows)
3. n-m. (figuratively) curtain, veil (something keeping another in secret)