sash cord

English

Noun

sash cord (countable and uncountable, plural sash cords)

1. A cord, usually of braided cotton, connecting the sash weight to the sash (opening part of a window), and running over a pulley at the top of the frame.
   • 1935, Warwick Deeping, chapter 31, in Sackcloth into Silk,‎^[1], Toronto: McClelland & Stewart:

     […] he went to lower the upper sash, only to discover that both sash-cords were broken, and that the window had to be lowered to its full extent, or not at all.

   • 1991, Eric Wright, A Fine Italian Hand‎^[2], New York: Scribner, published 1992, Prologue, p. 3:

     He found the body in number five, a once good-looking man in his late thirties with a length of sash cord still around his neck and blood from his wounds soaking into the bedcovers.