Sentence examples for double curtains from inspiring English sources

The double curtains dropped down and the show was over.

The earliest work here, from 2007, has no painting; it's just double curtains of opaque plastic.

The living room had the same massive lacquered wall unit and textured wallpaper, damaged now by the pencil scrawlings of tenants' children, the same double curtains of polyester lace and cretonne.

She photographed Hamed, below, in front of a double curtain.

The Double Curtain technique was first tried at Geneva in 1960, and four years later field trials with growers began.

Trellising systems have names that sound like 19th-century con games: there's the Geneva Double Curtain, the Hudson River Umbrella and the Four-Arm Kniffen.

The city served, as one later historian describes it, as "both court and emporium", ringed by a double curtain of defensive walls, "square for cosmic order".

Dr. Shaulis also worked with Cornell's department of agricultural engineering to develop the mechanical grape harvester, especially for use with the Double Curtain.

Before Dr. Shaulis retired in 1978 as professor of viticulture -- the science and methods of grape growing -- at Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, he developed a vine-training system known as the Geneva Double Curtain.

Given the erotic temper of the proceedings, it is hard to avoid seeing the pannier as an elaborate double curtain for a proscenium, designed as for a theater of bodily delights.

Late-summer visitors to grape farms who look straight down a Geneva Double Curtain row will see that the vine wood and luxuriant vegetation are trained both to the left and right over wires, supported by cross arms that are four feet apart and five or six feet above the ground.