1736 Canting Dictionary / C / CURTAIN-Lecture [thing]
Womens impertinent scolding at their Husbands behind the Curtain.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Curtain Lecture in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).