curtain lecture

1. 1.

   a private lecture to a husband by his wife

   Broaderlecture

Questions about curtain lecture

What does curtain lecture mean?

curtain lecture means "a private lecture to a husband by his wife".

Is curtain lecture a common word?

curtain lecture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.