Orange Curtain
n.— «Roughly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, it is a place to which people tired of city life are reputed to retreat—to surround themselves with the locally renowned “Orange Curtain,” as if with a security blanket.» —“Reagan promises peace from behind California’s Orange Curtain” by Reginald Dale, Paul Taylor in Orange County, Calif. Financial Times (U.K.) Sept. 4, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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