Drapes vs. Curtain

(plurale tantum) Heavy cloth hung over a window.

plural of drape

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

(theater) By extension, the beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.

Example: ‘He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.’;

(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.

Death.

(architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

A flag; an ensign.

To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

(figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

A flag; an ensign; - in contempt.

Example: ‘A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.’;

To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

Example: ‘So when the sun in bedCurtained with cloudy red.’;

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

any barrier to communication or vision;

Example: ‘a curtain of secrecy’; ‘a curtain of trees’;

provide with drapery;

Example: ‘curtain the bedrooms’;

A curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water. A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theater that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop/background.Curtains are often hung on the inside of a building's windows to block the passage of light.