Venetian blind
English
Alternative forms
- venetian blind
Noun
Venetian blind (plural Venetian blinds)
- A blind consisting of overlapping horizontal, flat slats, usually made of metal, vinyl or wood, that can be tilted so as to let in more or less light.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 115:
- The rest of the apartment was filled with that soft green light where the noon is excluded by Venetian blinds, or the still softer shadow of creeping plants:...
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 199:
- A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.
- 1961 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Switzerland's new four-voltage "Trans-Europe Express" units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 489:
- Every traveller on the demonstration runs was soon entranced with the most noticeable - the individual electric motors to raise, lower and adjust the venetian blinds in each double-glazed window, which are under the passenger's control in each seating bay by means of little thumb switches below the frames; [...].
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Translations
blind consisting of overlapping horizontal slats
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References
- ETM Window Blinds
- “venetian blind”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.