the.com/curtain rod
The only home improvement project that fights back with gravity and screws you lost.
means A slender pole, usually mounted on brackets above a window, that holds up curtains or drapes and lets them slide open and closed.
from Straightforward compound: 'curtain,' from Old French 'cortine' (a hanging, a cloth screen), tracing back to Late Latin 'cortina,' plus 'rod,' an old Germanic word for a slender straight stick or pole. No hidden story here — the word just describes exactly what the thing is, which makes it all the more insulting when the thing refuses to stay on its brackets.
- true purpose
- Converts five minutes into ninety every time
- wall anchors
- Found only after drilling the wrong spot
- cat test
- Structural integrity rated by one leap
- bracket count
- Always exactly one short of the set