curtain

verhot

panna verhot ikkunaan, verhota

verho A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
(RQ:BLwnds TLdgr)

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us,(..)caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles(nb..).

For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.

(rfquotek)

The window, softly curtained with dotted swiss, became the focus of my desperate hour-by-hour attention.

And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And 'curtaind' with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the others arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;

But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.

He saw a rock that pierced the shifting waters / As they stilled, now curtained by the riding / Of the waves, and leaped to safety on it.

But bleakness still curtained the gray horizon.