French - Turkish
Definition of couvre-feu in French Turkish dictionary
- sokağa çıkma yasağı
French - English
Definition of couvre-feu in French English dictionary
- {n} curfew
The curfew is at 10 pm.
-Le couvre-feu est à vingt-deux heures.
A curfew was imposed on the city.
-Un couvre-feu a été imposé dans la ville.
- The time when such restriction begins
- Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time
- A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers
- The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete
I have my lodging neere unto a tower, where both evening and morning a very great bell doth chime Ave marie and Cover-few, which jangling doth even make the tower to shake .
- A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell
- {n} eight o'clock bell, a cover for a fire
- A utensil for covering the fire
- a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions
- the time that the curfew signal is sounded
- an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions the time that the curfew signal is sounded
- A time that is set by the government when people have to be off of the streets Violators were arrested and put in jail
- A curfew is a law stating that people must stay inside their houses after a particular time at night, for example during a war. The village was placed under curfew In Lucknow crowds of people defied the curfew to celebrate on the streets
- a signal indicating this time
- a regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time
- the time that this restriction begins
- Order-in Council of Feb 24, 1942 restricted all Japanese Canadians to their homes from sunset to sunrise The order read, in part: "Every person of Japanese race while within the protect area shall hereafter be at his usual place of residence each day before sunset and shall remain there until sunrise on the following day "
- {i} set time when a person (or people) must be indoors; signal or bell that announces the start of curfew restrictions; decree ordering that after a specific time specific activities outside on the streets are forbidden by law; length of time during which a curfew is in effect
- During curfews Palestinians are forbidden to step foot outside their own homes 24 hours a day, sometimes for days on end H2 has experienced many months of curfew in recent years
- The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself