curtain lecture
nounEtymology
An allusion to the curtains that hung around old-fashioned beds.
Definitions
A scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed.
- 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.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA