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CURTAIN LECTURE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CURTAIN LECTURE is a private scolding or lecture by a wife to her husband. www.merriam-webster.com
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Curtain lectures - Spaces of Knowing - University of Cambridge
Curtain lectures – imaginative reconstructions of a wife's lesson to a husband in bed – were a known genre in the period. crossroads-spacesofknowing.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
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'curtain lecture': meaning and origin - word histories
The phrase curtain lecture denotes a scolding or rebuke given in private by a wife to her husband. wordhistories.net
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curtain-lecture
ˈcurtain-ˈlecture ‘A reproof given by a wife to her husband in bed’ (Johnson).1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 5 Often have you heard how much a superstitious wife, by her curtain lectures, hath wrought upon her Christian husband. 1660 Hickeringill Jamaica (1661) 85, I am not awed..with the dreadfull ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Curtain Lectures - streetsofsalem -
Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas Jerrold in Punch in 1845. These 37 illustrated lectures were published in book form that same year, and ... streetsofsalem.com
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Curtain lecture - World Wide Words
Curtain lecture may be simply defined as a censorious lecture by a wife to her husband, often while in bed. It has almost, but not quite totally ... www.worldwidewords.org
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John Westcott
He was the first to lecture on the new field of cybernetics in Britain and was a member of the Ratio Club with Grey Walter, Alan Turing, Giles Brindley founder-member in 1957 of the International Federation of Automatic Control, one of the first professional bodies to liaise successfully across the Iron Curtain wikipedia.org
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What would be the modern equivalent for "a curtain lecture"?
A curtain-lecture was "a reproof given by a wife to her husband in bed". I had imagined the phrase referred to the drawing of the ... english.stackexchange.com
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curtain-lecture, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun curtain-lecture is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for curtain-lecture is from 1633, in the writing ... www.oed.com
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Curtain Lecture (Grose 1811 Dictionary)
A woman who scolds her husband when in bed, is said to read him a curtain lecture. Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, ... words.fromoldbooks.org
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Curtain lecture - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
A reprimand that a wife gives her husband. “Curtain” refers to the drapery on canopied beds; the image is that of a wife giving hubby a piece of her mind. idioms.thefreedictionary.com
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CURTAIN LECTURE definition in American English
Archaic a scolding or rebuke given in private, esp by a wife to her husband.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video. www.collinsdictionary.com
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curtain-sermon
† ˈcurtain-ˈsermon Obs. = curtain-lecture.1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xv. §44 The Curtaine-Sermons nightly enlarged vpon the same Text. 1621–51 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iii. iv. ii. 629. 1631 R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xv. §2. 255 He heares Curtaine..Sermons, ere the Morning. Oxford English Dictionary
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Barbara Lattimer Krader
In 1985, she was the first woman to give the Charles Seeger Memorial Lecture to the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, when she gave a Under the difficult conditions of the Cold War, she was recognized for her efforts to maintain contacts between music scholars on both sides of the Iron Curtain wikipedia.org
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curtain
▪ I. curtain, n.1 (ˈkɜːtɪn, -t(ə)n) Forms: 4–6 cortyn(e, -eyn(e, courtyn(e, -ein(e, -ayn, curtyn(e, -ein(e, -eyn(e, -ayn(e, 4–7 courtin(e, curten, -ine, 4–8 cortine, curtin, (4 couertine, 5 quirtayn, 5– 6 courting), 6 cortaine, -ayne, (curteynge, cowrtyng), 6–8 courtain(e, 7–8 curtaine, 4, 7– curtai... Oxford English Dictionary
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