Meaning of chick-blind | Babel Free

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Synonym of chick (“screen or blind made of bamboo and twine”)

India, Malaysia, Pakistan

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.”

“Mirza Saeed drew up the chick blinds and fastened their cords.”

“A slightly warm breeze came in the window from behind the chick-blinds which the gardener sprayed with water from the hose every fifteen minutes.”

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