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Noun: bamboo curtain  bam'boo'kur-t(u)n
  1. An ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s
    "The bamboo curtain isolated China from much of the Western world during the Cold War"

Derived forms: bamboo curtains

Type of: ideological barrier

Encyclopedia: Bamboo curtain