Curtain Wall Definition

noun
An outer or enclosing wall, especially one connecting two towers or turrets, as in a medieval fortification.
American Heritage
An independently supported outer wall that carries only its own weight and is freely removable.
Webster's New World
A nonbearing wall, often of glass and steel, fixed to the outside of a building and serving especially as cladding.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Curtain Wall

Noun

Singular:
curtain wall
Plural:
curtain walls

Curtain Wall Sentence Examples

  • The curtain wall also had battlements or crenellations to further enhance the defensive power of the castle.

  • Each tower was three stories, with the uppermost story rising above the curtain wall.

  • The curtain-wall and towers of the Mycenaean citadel, its gate with heraldic lions, and the great "Treasury of Atreus" had borne silent witness for ages before Schliemann's time; but they were supposed only to speak to the Homeric, or at farthest a rude Heroic beginning of purely Hellenic, civilization.

  • The lake came almost up to the curtain wall on the side of the castle visible in the photograph.

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