Curtain call

curtain lecture; curtal; curtal ax; curtilage; curtsy; curule; curvaceous

And today's Dickinsonian oracle:

To love thee Year by Year -
May less appear
Than sacrifice, and cease -
However, dear,
Forever might be short, I thought to show -
And so I pieced it, with a flower, now.
(E. Dickinson, 618)