venetian : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closed
  

WordNet

• a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions.

Webster 1913

• an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.

Webster 1913

• a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.

Webster 1913

• (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides.

Webster 1913

• noun fine glassware made near Venice
  

WordNet

• a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns.

Webster 1913

• noun a shade of brown with a tinge of red
  mahogany; sepia; reddish brown; burnt sienna.
  

WordNet

• a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; called also scarlet ocher.

Webster 1913

• . See Castile soap, under Soap.

Webster 1913

• noun Old World shrub having large plumes of yellowish feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
  wig tree; Cotinus coggygria.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), a South European tree (Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; also called smoke tree.

Webster 1913

• (Arch.), a window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head.

Webster 1913