Austrian blind
noun
variants or Austrian shade or less commonly Austrian curtain
: a curtain that usually can be raised and lowered by pulling a cord and that is gathered along vertical lines in a way that forms a scalloped pattern
… bustles … ruched in the manner of Austrian shades …
Linda Gillan Griffin, Houston Chronicle, 17 Sept. 1999
Linda Gillan Griffin, Houston Chronicle, 17 Sept. 1999
Word History
First Known Use
1910, in the meaning defined above
- form/term of address
- forma
- formabilities
- formability
- formable
- formably
- formae
- formagen
- formagenic
- formal
- formal cause
- formal discipline
- formal fallacy
- formal garden
- formal logic
- formal matter
- formal mode
- formal proposition
- formal sociology
- formal subject
- formal truth
- formaldehyde
- formaldehyde tanning
- formaldehydes
- formaldehydesulfoxylate