John looked out the window. The slopes were covered in snow.

[alpacinou]

Is this correct and natural?

John looked out the window. The slopes were covered in snow. The mountains were curtained by a low ceiling of clouds.

 

[jutfrank]

What way do the curtains in your house hang?

 

[emsr2d2]

Something can't be curtained by a ceiling of anything. Curtains hang in front of something. A ceiling is above something.

(Cross-posted)

 

[alpacinou]

I was trying to see if I could use "curtain" as a verb in that way. I found this example from a book by a British author:



https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...ource=gbs_atb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[alpacinou]

In the previous post, I was trying to explain why I wrote what I wrote in the first post.

If emsr2d2 and jutfrank say using curtain doesn't work that way, then I won't use it.

 

[jutfrank]

I understand that you borrowed the use of curtain from that particular text.

What we're trying to teach you here is to be more responsible for your own creative imagery.