curtain off

1. 1.

   separate by means of a curtain

   Broadershut off

Questions about curtain off

What does curtain off mean?

curtain off means "separate by means of a curtain".

Is curtain off a common word?

curtain off 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.