Meaning of curtain lecture | Babel Free

Definitions

A scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed.

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Examples

“I have pawn'd already her Tuftaffaty Peticote and all her Child-bed linnen, besides two tiffiny Aprons, and her bearing-cloth, for which I have had already two curtaine Lectures, and a black and blue eye.”

“I still prevailed, and would be in the right, / Or curtain lectures made a restless night.”

“A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.”

“Yes, she may toss her head and hector, / But she shall have a curtain lecture ...”

“... in a curtain lecture, I say, Mrs. Sedley took her husband to task for his cruel conduct to poor Joe.”

“Before she went, she gave Robert several curtain lectures; but he had little time for her and avoided her.”

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