Meaning of curfew | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
2. feminine singular of quedo
3. The time when such restriction begins.
4. third-person singular present indicative
5. A signal indicating this time.
6. second-person singular imperative
7. A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
8. A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.
   historical
9. The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.

Equivalents

Examples

“Curfews have been curbing / The end of liberty”

“Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.”

“I have my lodging neere unto a tower, where both evening and morning a very great bell doth chime Ave marie and Cover-few, which jangling doth even make the tower to shake […].”

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