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sash cord en · NOUN
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(countable, uncountable) A cord, usually of braided cotton, connecting the sash weight to the sash (opening part of a window), and running over a pulley at the top of the frame.
He found the body in number five, a once good-looking man in his late thirties with a length of sash cord still around his neck and blood from his wounds soaking into the bedcovers.
1991, Eric Wright, A Fine Italian Hand, New York: Scribner, published 1992, Prologue, p. 3:[…] he went to lower the upper sash, only to discover that both sash-cords were broken, and that the window had to be lowered to its full extent, or not at all.
1935, Warwick Deeping, chapter 31, in Sackcloth into Silk,, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart:
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