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The phrase "a curtain around" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that encloses or separates an area, often metaphorically or literally.
Example: "The garden was beautifully designed, with a curtain around it made of vibrant flowers and greenery."
Alternatives: "a barrier surrounding" or "a screen enclosing".
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There was a curtain around the perimeter of the auditorium.
He waited in a cubicle with a curtain around it.
They found Ms. Seelig in a small bed with a curtain around it.
Poitras has closed a curtain around her main characters, leaving the audience out.
I'm standing in the tiny pseudo-room formed by drawing a curtain around the examination table area.
Occasionally, the driver would draw a curtain around the inside of the windows, and attach a flashing blue light to the roof before setting off.
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Cat hairs were found on a curtain wrapped around the dismembered torso of David Guy on Southsea beach last July.
He produced a very powerful fortification, including a shell keep and a curtain wall around the bailey, that, combined with the extensive earthworks, has been described by historian Nicholas Brooks as "one of the most powerful royal castles of the 12th and 13th centuries".
A patient, sobbing, behind a drawn curtain around his bed shouted at me to go away.
A gust of wind blew a stage curtain around, turning it green in the lights.
Kravitz in brown leather coat, jeans and dark sunglasses in the dead of night steps off the boat, and Tepperberg, relieved, quickly whisks him into a roped-off VIP area and pulls a white curtain around it to block prying eyes.
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