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blind door

American  

noun

  1. a door having louvers permitting circulation of air.


Etymology

Origin of blind door

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

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It's a blind door; don't show on the other side.

From Laramie Holds the Range by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)

Harry's carbide pointing the way through the blind door and into the main tunnel.

From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley

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)

Then, for the first time, he remembered that he had not told her of the blind door between himself and the other years.

From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville

Then I came to a flight of steps, and then to a blind door, secured by a latch of elaborate Eastern ironwork, which I could only trace by touch, but which I loosened at last.

From The Wisdom of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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