cotton curtain

cotton curtain
 n.— «This very afternoon he had left the office of his agent in New York, tonight would stop off at his house in Bucks County, and tomorrow would head south, under the “cotton curtain,” as he expressed it.» —by Walker Percy The Last Gentleman , 1966. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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