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Irish curtain
noun
on Prince Edward Island, a cobweb inside the house CANADA- Mainers [people from the mainland] took part in the general laughter of the times about the Irish. Irish draperies and cobwebs, perhaps a bit of one-upmanship with “lace-curtain” Irish: hence “Irish curtains.” — T. K. Pratt, oral citation from Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, p. 80, 1988
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