Definition of "window-screen" [window-screen]

• Any device for filling all or part of the opening of a window, particularly if it is ornamental, as the pierced lattices of the Arabs; also, the glass filling of a stained or painted window. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "(Soundbite of music) WAS: Buddy wasn't but 7 years old when he fashioned his first make-shift instrument out of a lighter-fluid can, some window-screen wire and tacks."
• "He'd sit in his ground-floor dorm-room, sheilded by the window-screen, and squirt passers-by, then duck and cover."
• "In some towns the streets are nearly straight and cross each other like the wires of a window-screen."