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View synonyms for window shade

window shade

noun

  1. a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of window shade1

First recorded in 1800–10
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Example Sentences

Braceway went in on tiptoes, but Bristow stirred and turned toward him when the nurse put up the window shade.

Adair, with his eye at a hole in a window shade, gave his attention to the attack.

With that I closed my door upon the scene, and strove to bury myself in oblivion behind the white window-shade.

When we came in from dinner, I drew the window-shade, and saw that it was snowing fiercely.

Looking across as the last note died away, she thought he was asleep, and rose to draw down the window-shade.

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