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curtain lectures

curtain lectures is the plural of curtain lecture.

Meaning of curtain lecture

Noun

curtain lecture (plural curtain lectures)

  1. A scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed.
    • I have pawn'd already her Tuftaffaty Peticote and all her Child-bed linnen, besides two tiffiny Aprons, and her bearing-cloth, for which I have had already two curtaine Lectures, and a black and blue eye.1649, Francis Quarles, Virgin Widow, act II, scene 1

Questions about curtain lectures

What is curtain lectures the plural of?
Curtain lectures is the plural of curtain lecture.

Words near curtain lectures in the dictionary

  1. curtain call
  2. curtain calls
  3. curtain coating
  4. curtain coatings
  5. curtain lecture
  6. curtain lectures
  7. curtain off
  8. curtain raiser
  9. curtain raisers
  10. curtain ring
  11. curtain rings

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