CURTAIN LECTURE Definition & Meaning

curtain lecture

noun

Older Use. a scolding administered in private by a wife to her husband.

curtain lecture

noun

a scolding or rebuke given in private, esp by a wife to her husband

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of curtain lecture¹

First recorded in 1625–35

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of curtain lecture¹

alluding to the curtained beds where such rebukes were once given

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Her grandmother treated him to what were referred to as “curtain lectures.”

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She seemed to me to be more forward than ever that morning, and I felt a suspicion that I was going to get a curtain lecture.

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Mrs. Caudle herself would scarcely hazard a curtain lecture with this atrocious alternative in prospect.

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Her discourse would have rendered the poor man very uneasy, indeed, had not "luck" extricated him from his dilemma on the next day succeeding the curtain lecture.

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Many were the curtain lectures which were inflicted upon the poor barber.

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