Chick-blind
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Synonym of chick (“screen or blind made of bamboo and twine”) India, Malaysia, Pakistan
"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."
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More examples"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."
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