Such a lovely view framed by those curtains!
curtain — a hanging screen that can typically be drawn back and usually used as window drapery or covering
cortina — the Spanish cognate of the same meaning
These words come to us from Late Latin’s cortina for “curtain” but that developed from Latin’s word for “court” or “enclosur…
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