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单词 curfew
释义 curfew
n.
  1. a a regulation restricting or forbidding the public circulation of people, esp. requiring people to remain indoors between specified hours, usu. at night. b the hour designated as the beginning of such a restriction. c a daily signal indicating this.
  2. hist. a a medieval regulation requiring people to extinguish fires at a fixed hour in the evening. b the hour for this. c the bell announcing it.
  3. the ringing of a bell at a fixed evening hour.
Etymology: ME f. AF coeverfu, OF cuevrefeu f. the stem of couvrir COVER + feu fire
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