blind door
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of blind door
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Harry's carbide pointing the way through the blind door and into the main tunnel.
From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley
But in a room below us we were sometimes allowed to peer in through a sort of blind door at the great water-wheel that carried the works of the whole mill.
From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Larcom, Lucy
The barricades bothered him, but he mounted them all, and began an emergency pound on the forbidding blind door.
From The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
He evidently knew the harness room, for he opened the blind door with hardly any hesitation and stepped into the office.
From Laramie Holds the Range by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
It's a blind door; don't show on the other side.
From Laramie Holds the Range by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
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