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• night curfew — curfew that is in force during the night hours …   English contemporary dictionary

• Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight — is a narrative poem by Rose Hartwick Thorpe, written in 1867 and set in the 17th century. It was written when she was 16 years old and first published in Detroit Commercial Advertiser.[1] …   Wikipedia

• night-time curfew — curfew that is in force during the night hours …   English contemporary dictionary

• curfew — ► NOUN 1) a regulation requiring people to remain indoors between specified hours, typically at night. 2) the time at which such a restriction begins. ORIGIN originally denoting a regulation requiring fires to be extinguished at a fixed hour in… …   English terms dictionary

• Curfew bell — The curfew bell was a bell rung in the evening in Medieval England as the signal for everyone to go to bed.[1] A bell was rung usually around eight o clock in the evening which meant for them to cover their fires deaden or cover up, not… …   Wikipedia

• Curfew — This article is about the curfew law. For the band, see Curfew (band). For the song by Drive, see Curfew (song). For the song by Eddy Grant, see Message Man. A curfew is an order specifying a time after which certain regulations apply.[1]… …   Wikipedia

• curfew — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ strict ▪ 24 hour, dusk to dawn ▪ night, night time ▪ 7 p.m., etc …   Collocations dictionary

• curfew — cur|few [ˈkə:fju: US ˈkə:r ] n [U and C] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: covrefeu signal to put out fires, curfew , from covrir to cover + feu fire ] 1.) a law that forces people to stay indoors after a particular time at night, or the… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• curfew — [[t]kɜ͟ː(r)fjuː[/t]] curfews N VAR A curfew is a law stating that people must stay inside their houses after a particular time at night, for example during a war. The village was placed under curfew... In Lucknow crowds of people defied the… …   English dictionary

• curfew — A law (commonly an ordinance) which imposes on people (particularly children) the obligation to remove themselves from the streets on or before a certain time of night. An institution supposed to have been introduced into England by order of… …   Black's law dictionary

• curfew — A law (commonly an ordinance) which imposes on people (particularly children) the obligation to remove themselves from the streets on or before a certain time of night. An institution supposed to have been introduced into England by order of… …   Black's law dictionary