Venetian blind

Definition

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.

Example Sentences

• "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:..."
• "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."
• "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; […]"