uncurtained
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6.5
- adjective
- /ʌnˈkɜrtənd/
- The sunlight streamed into the room through the uncurtained window, filling it with warmth.
- an uncurtained window
- an uncurtained room
Examples
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A shaft of orange light from the street entered through the uncurtained window and marked a square on the wall.
Fiction book (1999) -
After dinner, they sip tea from blue mugs and watch the sun recede from the uncurtained window.
Fiction book (1999) -
Through an uncurtained window, they can see a man behind a counter looking out.
Fiction book (1994) -
Through the uncurtained windows, Summer could see the silhouettes of people inside the buildings.
Fiction book (1995) -
I turned to look at his face and the shape of his body, the moonlight streaming through the uncurtained window.
Fiction book (1993) -
The carpet was thick and pale gray, the uncurtained window wide and wet with rain.
Fiction book (1999) -
She sat in a chair she had placed at the uncurtained window of her second-story room.
Fiction book (2002) -
When I looked in through the uncurtained ground-floor window, I could see the little display of lights on the front of Isobel's CD player.
Fiction book (1994) -
The room was an old sleeping porch with uncurtained windows on three sides, airy-looking and open, with a pinewood floor.
Fiction book (2000) -
The kitchen glows luridly, irradiated by some source of light beyond the uncurtained window.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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5.3
A window or room with no curtains
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Etymology
The word uncurtained is made from un- 'not' and curtain 'a hanging cover', like the cloth on a window or the cloth that opens on a stage. So it means 'without a curtain', and that is why an uncurtained room or window feels open or exposed.