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n. A series of thin slats that hang in front of a window, which can be turned as a group close with a slight overlap to block the window.
Usage examples of "vertical blinds".
One wall was all windows, but they were covered with vertical blinds, open no more than narrow slits.
No one had raised the vertical blinds to take advantage of the breezes coming off the Rio de la Plata.
Jacques pressed his back up against the wall between the two windows, the one place in the dining room where he couldn't be seen from outside when the new vertical blinds were open.
It's getting dark, so you turn the pink pastel vertical blinds closed and pull the curtains before putting on the lights.
Half of one wall of the doctor's inner office is window, but the view is concealed by vertical blinds.
When he opened the vertical blinds, he saw there was a balcony overlooking the water.
The muted stripes on the walls and the simple vertical blinds fit her style.
The vertical blinds over the windows were closed, but illumination seeped in from the lamp out front.
Yet all of the condos on that floor have closed vertical blinds, so even if I was staring directly at her place, it would do me little good.
She pulled back the vertical blinds, seeking the reassurance of sunlight.
Lights from outside filtered through the vertical blinds, figuring her face with pale curls and crescents like aboriginal tattoos.
He saw that some of the glass panels that opened onto the balcony were shielded by broad vertical blinds.
I opened the vertical blinds over the sliding glass door, and—.
He crossed to a credenza, which ran the length of the room before a window shrouded in linen-textured vertical blinds, and poured water from a thermal carafe into a glass.