red curtain

collocation in English

meaningsofredandcurtain

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red
adjective
uk
/red/us
/red/
of the colour of ...
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curtain
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɜː.tən/us
/ˈkɝː.tən/
a piece of material, especially cloth, that hangs across a window or opening to make a room or part of a room dark ...
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(Definition ofredandcurtainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Partially hidden by the extensive theatricalredcurtainthat falls from the roof there is a balcony where a band plays a concert.
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It had a largeredcurtainto hide it from the audience and was similarly decked with roses.
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Behind a largeredcurtainheld behind her, several back up singers were placed standing on a concealed elevated platform.
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Theredcurtainhas simple gilding, but often remains unseen as it is unused for many of today's productions.
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A ghostlyredcurtainappears behind the pool.
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The room, has minimal furniture, red curtains on all walls, a black and white zigzagged floor and driving physics comparable to driving underwater.
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Cooper then sees himself as 25 years older, sitting stationary in a room surrounded by red curtains that emit an otherworldly light.
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Above the throne was a canopy, lined with red and draped with red curtains.
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Behind her, partly drawn red curtains reveal an overcast sky seen through a closed window.
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Kimbra wears a little black dress, on a stage with red curtains, and porcelain dolls in rows on shelves behind her.
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The music video features the band playing in a room with red curtains, with the band's trademark, a little bug with what appear to be glass eyes, flying around.
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The floor is a zig-zag pattern of black and white, and all sides of any room and all walls of any hallway encountered are covered by identical red curtains.
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Aurora describes her dream in which she was trapped in a sealed red room with red curtains.
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At the sides are red curtains.
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The back cover shows a couch in front of some red curtains and shows the track listing and all of the information instead of putting it in the booklet.
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Starting out with red velvet curtaining, the colour bleeds, meandering through changing intensities of blue, followed by a black and white stencil-type backdrop, before ending with the red curtains again.
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The red curtains are quite apt.
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There are no doors to speak of; movement from room to room is accomplished by crossing through another set of red curtains that lead to a narrow hallway.
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Cooper retires to bed at his hotel room, and experiences a strange dream that takes place in a room hung with red curtains.
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