safety curtain

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   a fireproof theater curtain to be dropped in case of fire

   Broadertheater curtain

Questions about safety curtain

What does safety curtain mean?

safety curtain means "a fireproof theater curtain to be dropped in case of fire".

Is safety curtain a common word?

safety curtain 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.