bamboo curtain
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The political and ideological barrier between the communist and capitalist states of Asia during the Cold War.
name
Alternative letter-case form of Bamboo Curtain.
Example Sentences
- "Gen. Wego Chiang, commander-in-chief of the Combined Service Forces, called on leaders of the free world to design an effective global strategy to safeguard world peace and to rescue the enslaved people behind the Bamboo Curtain."
- "“A new bamboo curtain may be coming down on Southeast Asia,” he worried. This would not be a hard-and-fast wall like the Iron Curtain; nor would it be part of some newly imagined Asian domino theory."
- "As it had been for other Western reporters getting their first look behind the Bamboo Curtain, it was all a marvel for Payne. After all, here was a country that less than a quarter of a century ago had been destitute after three decades of revolutionary warfare."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
the Bamboo Curtain (canonical)