CURTAINLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curtainless mean? 

• CURTAINLESS (adjective)
  The adjective CURTAINLESS has 1 sense:

1. not provided with curtains

  Familiarity information: CURTAINLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURTAINLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not provided with curtains

Synonyms:

curtainless; uncurtained

Context example:

blank, curtainless windows stared back at her

Antonym:

curtained (furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies)

 Context examples 

Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The windows were curtainless, and the yellow moonlight, flooding in through the diamond panes, enabled one to see even colours, whilst it softened the wealth of dust which lay over all and disguised in some measure the ravages of time and the moth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)