curtain lecture
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curtain lecture
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An allusion to the curtains that hung around old-fashioned beds.
noun curtain lectures
- 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.
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noun a scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed
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@misc{curtain_lecture_2026,
title = {curtain lecture},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/curtain%20lecture},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
