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Most of its low-slung houses lining the stone-walled, earthen lanes have landscaped courtyards, thatched roofs and sliding windows covered with hanji, a fibrous paper made from mulberry bark and used in many traditional houses.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022
The basics: Portable units come with a 5- to 7-foot exhaust hose and a window panel installation kit for horizontal or vertical sliding windows.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2021
Its Soviet-era apartment blocks are flaking and ill-kempt; the newer towers come styled in generic “urban shab”, with flimsy sliding windows and mean balconies, their hulls crusted with air-conditioners and satellite dishes.
From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2017
Presented by the New York Transit Museum and the city’s Department of Buses, the free display includes the city’s first air-conditioned transit bus and its first with sliding windows.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2017
He admired the two upstairs sliding windows, even as he vaguely supposed he could ask one thing more, one small thing — that Helen might be returned to him.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
