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   curfew

   /ˈkəːfjuː/

   noun

   • 1. a regulation requiring people to remain indoors between specified hours, typically at night: "a dusk-to-dawn curfew"
   • ▪ the hour designated as the beginning of a curfew: "to be abroad after curfew without permission was to risk punishment"
   • ▪ the daily signal indicating the beginning of a curfew: "they had to return before the curfew sounded"

   Word Origin Middle English (denoting a regulation requiring people to extinguish fires at a fixed hour in the evening, or a bell rung at that hour): from Old French cuevrefeu, from cuvrir ‘to cover’ + feu ‘fire’. The current sense dates from the late 19th century.

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