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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
curtained
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
window
▪ A police officer said the window could not be opened without first leaning over a radiator and a curtained window box.
▪ The room was thick with stale cigarette smoke and strong sunlight pierced through every gap in the curtained windows.
▪ He'd expected a clandestine rendezvous - curtained windows, locked doors - not a gypsy encampment.
▪ It was a great slab-sided craft with lots of wooden balconies and curtained windows.
▪ The evening is beautiful and mysterious and the outskirts of Reading full of softly lit curtained windows and familiar homely sounds.
▪ Limousines slid across the asphalt, decadent thrill-seekers cringing behind their curtained windows.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ingeniously designed, the main cabin contained a stove, a curtained bed and cupboards whose painted doors let down into tables.
▪ Limousines slid across the asphalt, decadent thrill-seekers cringing behind their curtained windows.
▪ She found the curtained casement flung open to let in a stream of sunlight and fresh air.
▪ She woke in the pitch darkness of the curtained bed with the suddenness of one called.
▪ The author Gustave Flaubert once dreamed of lying in a curtained bed.
▪ The intern cleaned me up then made me lie on a trolley in a curtained cubicle.
▪ The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand.
▪ The seaman reappeared from behind the curtained off bunk section of the cabin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
curtained

curtained \curtained\ (k[^u]r"t[i^]nd; 48), adj. furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies; as, a curtained alcove. Opposite of curtainless.

Wiktionary
curtained

vb. (en-past of: curtain)

WordNet
curtained

adj. furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies; "a curtained alcove" [ant: curtainless]

Usage examples of "curtained".

Together they raced down the nearest aisle until they spotted a curtained alcove.

The one window that might have admitted a little sunlight was curtained by dusty streamers of glitzribbon and prismawood light-dangles.

Across the far end was fitted a raised and curtained platform that jutted into the floor space.

Like Maglore's guardian creature in its curtained niche under the central staircase in Runemanse's great hall, this thing's general outline was manlike.

There was a short, dim passageway similarly curtained at the other end.

He pushed through the second set of curtains and found himself alone in a cozy-feeling but rather shabby square room with curtained doorways in each of the other three walls and lit by a bronze-caged fire-beetle over each doorway.

She shook her head and pointed at the thongs and then at the curtained palanquin.

The column had halted, the Browns arranged tightly around the curtained litter, their escorting Grays ahead and behind.

Toranaga had left her in the curtained litter as a decoy and one of the wounded had been put in the second litter, also as a decoy.

There she got back into the curtained litter and they went up the slight rise.

The head of a procession of samurai around a curtained litter approached from the direction of the castle.

Father Alvito turned away and looked at the curtained litter coming through the barrier, Toranaga's pennant fluttering, and uniformed samurai before and after, hemming in a straggling, motley group of samurai.

He rose, stretched, and walked slowly to the curtained windows, peering through the folds into the darkness beyond.

There they paused momentarily while the Druid listened at the curtained window.

Light shone brightly through the curtained windows of the little house, and from within came the low, gentle sound of voices-no, Wil corrected himself, children’s voices!