Definition of "window-curtain" [window-curtain]

• Same as curtain, 1 . (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "All the time, while the tale of happening at Poonga - Poonga had been going on, he had pictured her as the woman he had always known, clad roughly, skirt made out of window-curtain stuff, an undersized man's shirt for a blouse, straw sandals for foot covering, with the Stetson hat and the eternal revolver completing her costume."
• "Thus, and more to this purpose, Mrs. Bolton spoke, now peeping through the window-curtain, now cleaning the mugs and plates, and consigning them to their place in the corner cupboard; and finishing her speech as she and Fanny shook out and folded up the dinner-cloth between them, and restored it to its drawer in the table."
• "To enlighten it with the lights of a stone passage, a flight of stairs, a brown window-curtain, and a black man."