Venetian blind

English

Alternative forms

• venetian blind

Noun

Venetian blind (plural Venetian blinds)

1. A blind consisting of overlapping horizontal, flat slats, usually made of metal, vinyl or wood, that can be tilted so as to let in more or less light.

   Synonyms: Venetian, venetian, (India, obsolete) jill-mill

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 115:

     The rest of the apartment was filled with that soft green light where the noon is excluded by Venetian blinds, or the still softer shadow of creeping plants:...

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199:

     A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.

   • 1961 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Switzerland's new four-voltage "Trans-Europe Express" units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 489:

     Every traveller on the demonstration runs was soon entranced with the most noticeable - the individual electric motors to raise, lower and adjust the venetian blinds in each double-glazed window, which are under the passenger's control in each seating bay by means of little thumb switches below the frames; […]

Translations

blind consisting of overlapping horizontal slats

• Bulgarian: жалузи (bg) (žaluzi)
• Burmese: တရုတ်ကတ် (my) (ta.rutkat)
• Catalan: veneciana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百葉窗／百叶窗 (zh) (bǎiyèchuāng)

• Czech: žaluzie (cs) f pl
• Danish: persienne (da) c
• Dutch: luxaflex (nl) m
• Finnish: sälekaihdin (fi)
• French: store vénitien (fr) m, jalousie (fr) f
• German: Jalousie (de) f
• Greek: παντζούρι (el) n (pantzoúri)
• Italian: veneziana (it) f
• Japanese: ベネシャンブラインド (beneshan buraindo)
• Korean: 베네치안 블라인드 (Benechian beullaindeu)
• Norman: vénitienne f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: persienne m

  Nynorsk: persienne f

• Polish: żaluzja (pl)
• Portuguese: persiana (pt) f, veneziana f
• Russian: жалюзи́ (ru) n pl (žaljuzí)
• Spanish: persiana (es) f
• Swedish: persienn (sv)
• Tagalog: benesyana
• Volapük: jalusid

References

• ETM Window Blinds
• “venetian blind”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.