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net curtain

n. A thin curtain that allows light into a room but prevents people outside from seeing inside.

Usage examples of "net curtain".

Shades of washed-out brownish purple, a photographic look: a woman in a slip, at a window, seen through a net curtain, her face in shadow.

Badly applied dabs of make-up made her face shine in the golden afternoon sunlight filtering through the net curtain.

He arose and walked to a window, pulled aside a fine net curtain and looked down on the bustle of Seventh Street.

He peered over the net curtain into a yard which was a veritable munitions dump of spent curry tins.

I was standing near the window, looking through the net curtain at the premises across the street.

The woman closed the door behind them and fidgeted with the net curtain in the porch window.

Here and there a dirty net curtain let a glimmer from a 40 watt bulb escape to join the feeble street lighting.

She was standing by the window, a hand parting the net curtain so she could watch feeble strands of smoke rising from somewhere across the river, another piece of real estate damaged in last night's explosions.