"curtain lecture" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "An allusion to the curtains that hung around old-fashioned beds.",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1649, Francis Quarles, Virgin Widow, act II, scene 1:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1714, Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath:",
          "text": "I still prevailed, and would be in the right, / Or curtain lectures made a restless night.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819, Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle:",
          "text": "A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1829, William Combe, The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife, Canto 1:",
          "text": "Yes, she may toss her head and hector, / But she shall have a curtain lecture ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1846, Douglas William Jerrold, Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
          "text": "... in a curtain lecture, I say, Mrs. Sedley took her husband to task for his cruel conduct to poor Joe.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed."
      ],
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          "wife",
          "wife"
        ],
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          "husband",
          "husband"
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        [
          "bed",
          "bed"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Gardinenpredigt"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "a scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "gardinpreken"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "curtain lecture"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "An allusion to the curtains that hung around old-fashioned beds.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curtain lectures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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          "ref": "1649, Francis Quarles, Virgin Widow, act II, scene 1:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1714, Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath:",
          "text": "I still prevailed, and would be in the right, / Or curtain lectures made a restless night.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819, Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle:",
          "text": "A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1829, William Combe, The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife, Canto 1:",
          "text": "Yes, she may toss her head and hector, / But she shall have a curtain lecture ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1846, Douglas William Jerrold, Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
          "text": "... in a curtain lecture, I say, Mrs. Sedley took her husband to task for his cruel conduct to poor Joe.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed."
      ],
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        ],
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          "bed"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Gardinenpredigt"
    },
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      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "gardinpreken"
    }
  ],
  "word": "curtain lecture"
}