Definition of "window-blind" [window-blind]

• A blind, screen, or shade for a window. See blind. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "About one child every month is strangled in some type of window-blind cord, amounting to more than 200 infants and young children since 1990, regulators say."
• "Just before dawn she heard the men stirring in the yard; and the flashes of their lanterns spread every now and then through her window-blind."
• "Pettigrew evaded my illumination; he saw me coming up his front steps — I can still see his queer old nose and the crinkled brow over his eye and the little wisp of gray hair that showed over the corner of his window-blind — and he instructed his servant to put up the chain when she answered the door, and to tell me that he would not see me."