Covered or decorated with curtains; hung with drapery.
Combining the prefix 'be-' with 'curtained' (from 'curtain,' which comes from Old French 'cortine'). The 'be-' prefix here creates an adjective meaning adorned or covered with curtains, a pattern common in Early Modern English.
Poets and writers loved using 'be-' adjectives to create vivid, theatrical descriptions—'becurtained' sounds way more evocative than just saying 'with curtains.' This kind of creative word-building was especially popular in Renaissance literature, where writers were showing off their linguistic inventiveness.
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