English

Verb

curtained

1. simple past tense and past participle of curtain
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles , chapter IV

     In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking beatitude; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.

Adjective

curtained ‎(not comparable)

1. Covered or partitioned with a curtain or curtains.
   • 1862, Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market," lines 184-7,

     Golden head by golden head, / Like to pigeons in one nest / Folded in each other's wings, / They lay down in their curtained bed:

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,

     […] as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr. Enfield's tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures.

   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1998, Chapter 7,

     There was just room between the sofa and the curtained wall […]

2. (figuratively) Hidden or separated as if by a curtain.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 1,

     Now o'er the one halfworld / Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse / The curtain'd sleep;

3. (in compounds) Hung with a curtain or curtains of a specified type.
   • 1881, Oscar Wilde, "The Garden of Eros" in Poems, p. 34,

     And in his sedgy bed the lark, for joy that Day is nigh, / Scatters the pearléd dew from off the grass, / In tremulous ecstasy to greet the sun, / Who soon in gilded panoply will pass / Forth from yon orange-curtained pavilion / Hung in the burning east […]

   • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Chapter 6,

     […] the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom […]

   • 1997, Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, Chapter One,

     Little grocery shops and bakeries stood between jewelers and florists and bead-curtained doors opening into private houses […]