blind door

noun

1. a door having louvers permitting circulation of air.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blind door¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

The barricades bothered him, but he mounted them all, and began an emergency pound on the forbidding blind door.

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

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

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He evidently knew the harness room, for he opened the blind door with hardly any hesitation and stepped into the office.

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Helen rose, and, pushing open the blind door, stepped out on the veranda.

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