blind door

American  

noun

1. a door having louvers permitting circulation of air.

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Etymology

Origin of blind door

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

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

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)

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

From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley

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)

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)