Venetian blind

Example Sentences

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A venetian blind factory had been there in the 1970s.

From Washington Post

"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.

From BBC

A panhandler enters a subway car, and every eye turns to the floor as smoothly as the slats of a venetian blind sliding shut.

From The New Yorker

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.

From Literature

A car passed slowly outside, its headlights illuminating the bathroom through an open venetian blind.

From The New Yorker