Window Shade

The grid elements turn out to be window-shade curtains, which are raised to show people working in individual cubbyholes, sitting at tiny desks doing math. ❋ Melted_snowball (2008)

Hearing a woman exclaim, “Wunderschön!” at the sight of some flowers in a hotel dining room, she told her husband, “There—Gott sei dank, I understood THAT, anyway—window-shade!” ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

The others slid forward on the long seat, unbuttoned their vests, thrust their feet up on the chairs, pulled the stately brass cuspidors nearer, and ran the green window-shade down on its little trolley, to shut them in from the uncomfortable strangeness of night. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A flapping window-shade cast restless shadows on the still golem features on which dust was already settling. ❋ Keith Laumer (1959)

The morning after our marriage I raised the window-shade, so that the rising sun of that auspicious day should shine full upon our parlor-Brussels. ❋ Various (N/A)

Paul drew a tattered window-shade so that the hot western sun should not shine full in the sick boy's face, loosened his shirt at the neck, smoothed back the matted hair from his forehead, and with a threatening shake of his crutch, drove a howling dog and several screaming children from the room. ❋ Kirk Monroe (N/A)

She closed her door, and went up to her bed, and fell on it, and slept, amid the buzzing of the flies and the fitful flapping of the window-shade in the breeze. ❋ Lorimer Stoddard (N/A)

The window-shade flapped loudly, and she woke with an apprehension crushing her. ❋ Lorimer Stoddard (N/A)

To-day it was in greater confusion than usual, with white dust thick on table and chair, a window-shade askew, the music-rack disarranged, and a plate of grape-skins which Allison had left last night on the piano still standing there. ❋ Various (N/A)

When we came in from dinner, I drew the window-shade, and saw that it was snowing fiercely. ❋ Various (N/A)

A little girl of five years raised the window-shade to look out. ❋ Laura S. Haviland (N/A)

A stray beam of light from the westering sun slipped into the room between the edge of the window-shade and the sash, and fell across the chair reserved for the convict. ❋ W. C. Morrow (N/A)

Once, she whispered, she was going by when an indiscreet window-shade had been left up a couple of inches. ❋ Unknown (1920)

Gwendolyn let the window-shade go back into place very gently. ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)

As a second thought, he went back and jerked at the cord of the window-shade, but it refused to move. ❋ Unknown (1910)

[Window shade] are so cool that they were the last thing you'd [expect] to be defined on [urbandictionary.com]! ❋ Ijustlivehere (2006)

You should've [seen that] [tape], she was window shading *all* over [Cosby's] face. ❋ Emotionally Shallow Hippie (2017)

And you [woke up] and [raise] your [window shades] ❋ PabloEscobar123321 (2020)