curtain off
English
Verb
curtain off (third-person singular simple present curtains off, present participle curtaining off, simple past and past participle curtained off)
- To separate, isolate or block by means of a curtain or other barrier.
- 1960, "Strike Town," Time, 14 November, 1960,
- The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours.
- 1986, J. M. Coetzee, Foe, Penguin, 1987, Chapter III, p. 113,
- For furniture there was a table and chair, and a bed, slovenly made; one corner of the room was curtained off.
- 1960, "Strike Town," Time, 14 November, 1960,
- (figuratively) To isolate.
- 1993, Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage, 1994, Chapter Four, Section II, p. 312,
- I am talking about a way of regarding our world as amenable to investigation and interrogation without magic keys, special jargons and instruments, curtained-off practices.
- 1993, Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage, 1994, Chapter Four, Section II, p. 312,