chick-blind

plural chick-blinds

1. IndiaMalaysiaPakistanSynonym of chick (“screen or blind made of bamboo and twine”)

   Mirza Saeed drew up the chick blinds and fastened their cords.

   1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Random House, published 2008, Part IV

   2 more examples

   1895, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Letter to Miss 'Leila' Hamilton, in Agnes Giberne, The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 206, https://books.google.ca/books?id=FbUOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false I have, however, "chick" blinds to my outer doors; these are made of thin split bamboos; and if I let them down, no one can see in.

   A slightly warm breeze came in the window from behind the chick-blinds which the gardener sprayed with water from the hose every fifteen minutes.

   2009, Harold Bergsma, chapter 21, in The Opium Eaters, page 151

   Synonyms: chick