wind-screen
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wind-screen
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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I climbed over and sat beside him, staring in front of it through the wind-screen.
From Literature
She stopped beside an empty motor-car in order to put her hat straight with the help of the wind-screen, in which it was reflected, then she smoothed down her frock and tucked her umbrella more securely under her arm so that the handle, or rather the parrot, could be seen by everybody.
From Literature
As the altimeter needle brushes five thousand feet, we crest a mud-colored ridge, the earth drops away, and a breathtaking sweep of taiga fills the Plexiglas wind-screen.
From Literature
"What's wrong?" bawled the admiral, for the wind-screen had been lowered and the breeze was whistling past his ears.
From Project Gutenberg
He could see them reflected in the wind-screen, sometimes out of the tail of his eye.
From Project Gutenberg
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