(n.) 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.
(n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
(n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
(n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
(v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(2) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(3) We are drawing back the curtains to let light into the innermost corridors of power."
(4) Blatter’s spokesman, Klaus Stöhlker, told Press Association on Thursday: “Before the decision was taken, in the case of Russia and the USA there were ‘behind-the-curtain’ talks.
(5) At rostral levels, one third of the tracts are loosely built forming a king of curtain, while they become more compact at caudal levels.
(6) Artists in Russia have begun warning of a new "iron curtain" falling over the country, as ever more western stars become targets of the country's crackdown on culture.
(7) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(8) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
(9) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
(10) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(11) In net-curtained rooms above a disused kebab shop on Cricklewood Broadway, a small group of middle-aged men were at work as usual when they found themselves at the centre of a national terror warning.
(12) He had a private table on Dakota’s second floor that would often be cordoned off by a curtain upon his party’s arrival.
(13) Hence the nerves, hence the curtain twitching, hence the good tea cups and posh biscuits laid out on the table.
(14) Everyone expects it to be curtains for shipbuilding.
(15) Cyrus, who was standing on a nearby stage, said: “We’re all in the industry, we all do interviews and we all know how they manipulate shit.” Near the end of the broadcast, Cyrus spoke from behind a black curtain as she changed clothes.
(16) The few that remain benefit from ample provisions, friendly volunteers and cardboard-and-curtain partitions designed by the world-famous architect, Shigeru Ban .
(17) Sisal eaves curtains deterred mosquitoes from hut entry but did not kill those that had entered.
(18) Behind him is a blue curtain designed like the national flag with a white star and the words: "I love Somalia."
(19) Nigel Farage has declared it will be “curtains” for him as UK Independence party leader if he fails to win his target parliamentary seat of South Thanet.
(20) The log casts no further light on the blacked-out portion of the execution that lasted 27 out of the 43 minutes, in which a curtain was drawn over the viewing screen preventing witnesses from observing what was unfolding.
Pavilion
Definition:
(n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
(n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
(n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
(n.) Same as Tent (Her.)
(n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
(n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
(n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
(v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having an independent thinker at Westminster is what the people of Brighton Pavilion would want.
(2) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
(3) An oocyte donor program was established at the Women's Medical Pavilion, Dobbs Ferry, New York, in 1987 for women lacking normal ovarian function.
(4) In a nutshell: Sandcastle settlements Poland – Impossible Objects Gothic fantasies ... the Poland pavilion.
(5) A few details of their plans have been revealed including the indication of it being the Serpentine's lowest pavilion ever, with the roof barely 1.5 metres (5ft) off the ground.
(6) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(7) A series of 632 patients undergoing one or more transurethral resections of the prostate gland at Wesley Pavilion of Northwestern Memorial Hospital is presented.
(8) There are few undisputed champions in the restaurant business but I would argue that Vasco & Piero's Pavilion , a traditional osteria-style restaurant specialising in Umbrian cuisine, makes the best bowl of pasta in London.
(9) It was supplemented by the all-brick Guest House a few yards away, and later by a lake pavilion and underground art galleries.
(10) Photograph: Pablo Lopez Luz In recent years, pixadores have targeted icons of São Paulo’s modernism, including the Wilton Paes de Almeida building and Niemeyer’s famous pavilion located inside Ibirapuera Park .
(11) Chu's appearance before a packed hall at the US pavilion was part of an ambitious outreach effort by the Obama administration to persuade a sceptical international community it is serious about taking action on climate change.
(12) Nine years later, I realise that, despite its gorgeous location, the Pavilion is a shitehole boozer that sells horrible food, the children are still stuck to their screens, despite our best efforts (including joining the sailing club: brief pause for the hollowest of laughs at that one), and something nasty is stirring in my adopted home town.
(13) Refreshments are available at the Cavendish Pavilion which is close to the Sandholme car park.
(14) The Brighton Pavilion seat is the Green party's best shot at a parliamentary seat in 2010 and it has draped the seafront in cheeky slogans promoting its candidate.
(15) Designed by Future Systems, architects of the Space Age-style press pavilion at Lord's cricket ground in St John's Wood, it has about it, from the outside at least, not just something of a Pop era frock, but something of the sea and even the ocean depths - something, too, of outer space exploration.
(16) The conference is taking place adjacent to the Brighton Pavilion constituency in which Lucas is standing at the general election.
(17) Lucas is standing as parliamentary candidate in Brighton Pavilion, where the Greens came third in 2005, nearly 6,000 votes behind Labour, which took the seat.
(18) In one scrap of paper he imagines "as background, perhaps: An electric fête recalling the decorative lighting of Magic city or Luna Park or the Pier Pavilion at Herne Bay ..." So Herne Bay inspired him to realise the iconic work on glass rather than canvas.
(19) But sometimes long shots work | Gavin Barrett Read more Caroline Lucas, the party’s other co-leader and MP for Brighton Pavilion, announced earlier on Thursday that she would urge Labour MPs to join her in voting against the “premature triggering” of article 50 by parliament.
(20) The Green party won its highest-ever share of the vote in Thursday’s UK election but failed to add to its one seat in parliament, where Caroline Lucas increased her majority in Brighton Pavilion six-fold.