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A form of window screen — A mesh, made of metal wire, fibreglass, or other synthetic fibre, set in a frame and covering the opening of a window to keep leaves, debris, insects, birds, etc. from entering a building without blocking fresh airflow.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounwindowscreen (plural windowscreens)

plural windowscreens

  1. alternativeAlternative form of window screen.
    1 more example

    Another Autumn, for instance, is a series of one-line sketches — a feathering of the ink whereby characters lose definition is followed by overlapping windowscreens, one pattern interfering with another, which is in turn followed by sideways, all the politeness, all that irony, trying for a draw (an echo of a line from A Pillow-Book, a much earlier O'Brien poem).

    2007 December 9, “Words of the World”, in New York Times
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APA

windowscreen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/windowscreen

MLA

“windowscreen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/windowscreen. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “windowscreen,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/windowscreen.

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