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chick-blind en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (India, Malaysia, Pakistan) Synonym of chick (“screen or blind made of bamboo and twine”)
    • 1895, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Letter to Miss 'Leila' Hamilton, in Agnes Giberne, The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 206, https://books.google.ca/books?id=FbUOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false I have, however, "chick" blinds to my outer doors; these are made of thin split bamboos; and if I let them down, no one can see in.
    • A slightly warm breeze came in the window from behind the chick-blinds which the gardener sprayed with water from the hose every fifteen minutes. 2009, Harold Bergsma, chapter 21, in The Opium Eaters, page 151:
    • Mirza Saeed drew up the chick blinds and fastened their cords. 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Random House, published 2008, Part IV:

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chick