WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
win′dow shade′,
- Furniturea shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller. Also called blind, window blind.
- 1800–10
- Shade is used widely for window shade, although blind is common in the Midland U.S. (as well as in Great Britain), and curtain is used chiefly in New England and the South Atlantic states.
'window shade' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Austrian shade
- Roman shade
- balloon shade
- blind
- curtain
- gleam
- roll-up
- roller
- shade
- window blind