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Curtain Lecture

Definition: Curtain Lecture

Curtain Lecture

Noun

1. A private lecture to a husband by his wife.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definition: Curtain Lecture

Domain	Definition
Literature	Curtain Lecture The nagging of a wife after her husband is in bed. The lectures of Mrs. Caudle in Punch are first-rate caricatures of these "small cattle." "Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed." Dryden. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	CURTAIN LECTURE. A woman who scolds her husband when in bed, is said to read him a curtain lecture. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonyms within Context: Curtain Lecture

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disapprobation	Reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: Curtain Lecture

Language		Translations for "curtain lecture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		口舌 (quarreling, talking recklessly, tongue, words), カーソル強調 (car chase, car train, card, card loan, card system, cardigan, cardinal, cart, carton, cartoon, cartridge, curd, cursored emphasis, curtain, curtain antenna, curtain call, curtain wall, passenger and freight train). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くぜつ (lover's tiff, quarreling, September, talking recklessly, tongue, words), �"うぜつ (quarreling, talking recklessly, tongue, words), カーテンレクチャー . (various references)

Pig Latin		urtaincay ecturelay

Romanian		perdaf conjugal. (various references)

Russian		выговор (dressing down, jobation, objurgation, rating, rebuke, reprimand, reproof, rowing, schooling, set-down, snub, talking to, talking-to, telling off, telling-off), получаемый мужем от жены наедине. (various references)

Swedish		sparlakansläxa, skarp tillrättavisning. (various references)

Turkish		kadının yalnızken kocasını azarlaması. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Curtain Lecture

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-n-r-r-t-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: interculture.
	-3 letters: recirculate.
	-4 letters: literature, reluctance, reticulate, retractile, truculence.
	-5 letters: antiulcer, calenture, centraler, certainer, circulate, clatterer, craterlet, crenulate, culturati, curricula, curtailer, cuticulae, cuticular, elutriate, inculcate, interlace, reluctant, reluctate, reticular, retinulae, retinular, truculent, unclearer, unclutter, utricular, utterance.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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