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Curtaining

Curtain \Cur"tain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curtained (k[^u]r"t[i^]nd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Curtaining.] To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red.
--Milton.

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curtaining

n. Material used for curtains. vb. (present participle of curtain English)

Usage examples of "curtaining".

Under it the curtaining writhed--out from it spurted thin cascades of cubes.

Swiftly from each side of the gap a metal curtaining of the cubes joined.

The Companions had trailed along behind as they followed a well-worn path past curtaining vines covered with cascading flowers the size of her hand, and bushes with leaves bigger than a saddle.

Beneath the branches, the gray columns of the tree trunks loomed through the curtaining snow, and more snow carpeted the forest floor and mounded in the twigs of every bush.

With the firelight flickering over her, her back so straight, that sweep of hair curtaining half her face, she looked relaxed, confident, perfectly at ease.

With the earliest pipe of dawn he sought his patch, and when the curtaining night drove him from it he shut himself up with his books and garnered statistics till sleep overcame him.

When this novelty ceased to be a novelty, we turned our eyes shoreward and gazed at the long mountain with its rich green forests stretching up into the curtaining clouds, and at the specks of houses in the rearward distance and the diminished schooner riding sleepily at anchor.

Two litters closed with curtainings, surrounded by triple rows of swordsmen fully armored, carrying small shields and led by Kulun were being borne to the torn battlement.