Meaning of BAMBOO CURTAIN

Pronunciation:			bam'boo'kurtn
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s
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	See Also:		ideological barrier
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		arch dam, backstop, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, barrier of secrecy, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, Berlin wall, blackout, boom, border, border ground, borderland, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, censorship, cofferdam, curtain, dam, defense, dike, ditch, earthwork, embankment, fence, frontier, frontier post, gate, gravity dam, groin, hush-up, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, ironbound security, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, march, marches, marchland, milldam, moat, mole, mound, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, outpost, outskirts, pall, parapet, Pillars of Hercules, portcullis, rampart, repression, roadblock, rock-fill dam, seal of secrecy, seawall, security, shutter dam, smothering, stifling, stone wall, suppression, three-mile limit, twelve-mile limit, veil, veil of secrecy, wall, weir, wicket dam, work, wraps