Definition of Safety curtain

1. Noun. A fireproof theater curtain to be dropped in case of fire.

Generic synonyms: Theater Curtain, Theatre Curtain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Safety Curtain

safety-deposit box
safety-related
safety-valve
safety arch
safety belt
safety belts
safety bicycle
safety bike
safety blitz
safety bolt
safety call
safety car
safety catch
safety coffin
safety coffins
safety curtain (current term)
safety deposit box
safety device
safety factor
safety feature
safety fuse
safety harness
safety hat
safety helmet
safety helmets
safety in numbers
safety island
safety islands
safety isle

Literary usage of Safety curtain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Baths and Wash-houses: A Treatise on Their Planning, Design by Alfred William Stephens Cross (1906)
"An inscription of the following nature must be exhibited on the fire curtain—" safety curtain." The notice to be exhibited in sufficiently large letters ..."

2. Maktoub: A Romance of French North Africa by Matthew Craig (1918)
"... The safety curtain And Other Stories By Ethel M. Dell Author of "The Way of an Eagle," "The Knave of Diamonds," "The Rocks of ..."

3. The Bookman (1910)
"The London fire department insists that, in every theatre, the safety curtain shall be lowered and raised between the acts in order to prove to the audience ..."

4. The Subways and Tunnels of New York, Methods and Costs: With an Appendix on by Gilbert Haskell Gilbert, Lucius Irving Wightman, William Lawrence Saunders (1912)
"A drop safety curtain, i foot 6 inches deep and f of an inch thick, was fixed along the roof of each chamber. The cutting edge was of cast steel, ..."

5. The Subways and Tunnels of New York, Methods and Costs: With an Appendix on by Gilbert Haskell Gilbert, Lucius Irving Wightman, William Lawrence Saunders (1912)
"A drop safety curtain, i foot 6 inches deep and § of an inch thick, was fixed along the roof of each chamber. The cutting edge was of cast steel, ..."

6. New York Tunnel Extension, the Pennsylvania Railroad: Description of the by American Society of Civil Engineers (1910)
"The doors wer. hinged to open backward from the shields, because, if th. tunnel was flooded for any depth abov. the bottom of the safety curtain ..."

7. The Life of Henry Irving by Austin Brereton (1908)
"In vain was the safety curtain lowered. Hundreds of people remained shouting and applauding until the actor, having changed from his Becket costume to ..."

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