vertical blind
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- noun
- /ˈvɜrtɪkəl blaɪnd/
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persiana vertical
- My boyfriend sat against the wall, sketching, as I vamped in front of the vertical blinds.
- vertical blinds on a window
Examples
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And I don't want to have some halfwit HOA tell me I have to have a lawn, or that my windows have to be dressed with vertical blinds.
Blog text (19) -
She locks the sliding glass door and starts to pull the vertical blinds shut, then stops.
Fiction book (1999) -
The west wall of the cafeteria was nothing but floor-to-ceiling windows, vertical blinds breaking the view into strips, and once or twice he passed through the bars of sunlight that striped the floor in places and winced, as if the lick of sunlight on his face hurt.
Fiction book (2001) -
She pulled the vertical blind to let the sunlight brighten the room.
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The vertical blind can be adjusted to control the amount of light coming in.
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He installed the new vertical blinds in the kitchen to enhance privacy.
Synonyms
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A cover for a window that blocks light
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A cover for a window that blocks light and gives privacy
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'vertical' describes the orientation and 'blind' is a window covering, so a learner who knows both words can infer a window blind made of vertical slats. This formation is literal and cross-linguistically typical, making the MWE immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
The name vertical blind comes from a simple picture: long, narrow slats hang down and turn to control light and privacy. The parts vertical, meaning up and down, and blind, meaning a window cover, explain why it means 'a window covering made of long vertical slats'.