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Meanings of sunblind in English

Portuguese
toldo
Catalan
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A canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun.

        toldo
        Usage of sunblind in English
        1
        If we did, we'd leave the wyrmlings sunblind, as slow as commoners, and vastly outnumbered.
        Chaosbound
        2
        Perhaps in tracking him across the open desert of the day, they had gone sunblind and still could not see well.
        The Wyrmling Horde
        3
        He did not say it, but if he tried to walk in the open sun for long, he was the one who would go sunblind.
        The Wyrmling Horde
        4
        The sunblinds were drawn, and a sort of dim, religious light prevailed therein.
        The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
        5
        Some of the upper ones had green sunblinds.
        The Old Wives' Tale
        6
        Now and then we could see the huge facade of the house above us, winking through its sunblinds.
        The Upton Letters
        7
        There was nothing for it but to live in the comfortless rooms of the big house with the sunblinds.
        The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
        8
        The verandahs, stripped of their sunblinds, looked like skeletons; where there had been bright eyes and gay laughter, silence reigned.
        Married
        9
        "We will go sunblind," Kirissa argued, her face paling from fear.
        The Wyrmling Horde
        10
        I went to the window, and was about to throw up one of the sunblinds for a look at them; Crawford stopped me.
        The Deluge
        11
        Or he wanted his own cool apartment, with drawn sunblinds, vases full of flowers, his immense writing table, and a deserted Paris around him.
        Balloons
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for sunblind
        Portuguese
        toldo
        Sunblind through the time