Persian blinds

American  

plural noun

1. outside window shutters made of thin, movable horizontal slats.

2. (loosely) venetian blinds.

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Persian blinds British  

plural noun

1. another term for persiennes

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Example Sentences

Persian blinds, outside shutters of thin movable slats in a frame.

From Project Gutenberg

The Italians performing the service of the house arranged it according to their own ideas of fitness, and on this warm afternoon the drawing-room was in soft-colored twilight, the Persian blinds being clasped, and their lower panels pushed out a very little so as to let in a modicum of the whiteness of day.

From Project Gutenberg

He had spent many afternoons in the archives of his house, in the apartment next to the dining-room opening the bronze doors of the cabinets and poring over the bundles of papers by the soft light filtering through the Persian blinds, dusty old papers which had to be shaken to keep them from being devoured by moths!

From Project Gutenberg

The houses in a row, the red brick sidewalks, the balconies with Persian blinds, he admired them all with the simplicity of a savage from the interior of a desert who arrives at a trading station on the coast.

From Project Gutenberg