Drapes vs. Curtain — What's the Difference?

To cover, hang, or decorate with cloth in loose folds

A curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water. A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theater that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop/background.Curtains are often hung on the inside of a building's windows to block the passage of light.

To arrange or let fall in loose folds

A piece of fabric or other material that hangs in a window or open space as a decoration, shade, screen, or divider.

To hang or rest limply

Something that functions as or resembles a screen, cover, divider, or barrier

To fall or hang in loose folds

The movable screen or drape in a theater or hall that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop.

A drapery; a curtain.

The rising or opening of a theater curtain at the beginning of a performance or act.

A paper or cloth covering placed over a patient's body during medical examination or treatment, designed to provide privacy or a sterile operative field.

The time at which a theatrical performance begins or is scheduled to begin.

The way in which cloth falls or hangs

The fall or closing of a theater curtain at the end of a performance or act.

Plural of drape

The part of a rampart or parapet connecting two bastions or gates.

Heavy cloth hung over a window.

(Architecture) A curtain wall.

The end.

Absolute ruin

Death.

To provide (something) with a curtain or curtains.

To close off (something) with a curtain or curtains.

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.

(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.

Death.

(architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

A flag; an ensign.

To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

(figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

A flag; an ensign; - in contempt.

To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Any barrier to communication or vision;

Provide with drapery;