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venetian blind
noun
- a blind, as for a window, having overlapping horizontal slats that may be opened or closed, especially one in which the slats may be raised and drawn together above the window by pulling a cord.
Venetian blind
noun
- a window blind consisting of a number of horizontal slats whose angle may be altered to let in more or less light
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of venetian blind1
First recorded in 1760–70
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A venetian blind factory had been there in the 1970s.
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"I'm actually standing at a window looking out but you're seeing me through a venetian blind," she says of the tapestry, At A Window, VI.
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A panhandler enters a subway car, and every eye turns to the floor as smoothly as the slats of a venetian blind sliding shut.
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He was at it a long time, and I lost interest, closed the Venetian blind, and joined my sisters and brothers in front of the television set.
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A car passed slowly outside, its headlights illuminating the bathroom through an open venetian blind.
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