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Curtain Lecture

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The nagging of a wife after her husband is in bed. The lectures of Mrs. Caudle in Punch are first-rate caricatures of these “small cattle.”

“Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,

The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.”


Dryden.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Curry Favour
Curse or Cuss
Curse of Scotland
Curses
Cursing by Bell, Book, and Candle
Cursitor (Latin, clericus de cursu)
Curst
Curtail
Curtain (The)
Curtain
Curtain Lecture
Curtal Friar
Curtana
Curthose
Curtise
Curtmantle
Curule Chair
Curzon Street (London)
Cussedness
Custard
Custard Coffin