[ˈkəːfjuː], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a regulation requiring people to remain indoors between specified hours, typically at night
(e.g: a dusk-to-dawn curfew)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (denoting a regulation requiring people to extinguish fires at a fixed hour in the evening, or a bell rung at that hour): from Old French cuevrefeu, from cuvrir ‘to cover’ + feu ‘fire’. The current sense dates from the late 19th century