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  • noun a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun

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Examples

  • Her body turning to wisp and sunblind movement, she dances to an old Edith Piaf and her steps are out-of-sync but below the concrete floor the rabbits of despair swoon and blush.

    Big City 2010

  • As if you were there sandcrazy, sunblind, crowdcrazy, chainblind, scared of the dark and the blood in the street tired of freedom and nothing to eat but half-baked masonry that tasted like sweat aching to remember and afraid to forget what slavery was like.

    Bradley Burston: A Place at the Passover Table - for Pharoah 2009

  • "I've tucked a map of Poundbury behind your sunblind," she told him, negotiating a five-way junction.

    Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003

  • I started away from the others, forgetting them, forgetting everything, sunblind, stone-deaf?

    Catspaw Vinge, Joan D. 1988

  • In fact it is not so much a sunblind, as a self-acting window, opening and closing the aperture according to our need of light, and doing this so instantaneously that we are not sensible of the process.

    Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857

  • When we wish to regulate the admission of light to our rooms, we have recourse to various clumsy contrivances; paper blinds, perpetually tearing, sunblind rollers that will not roll, venetian blinds continually in need of mending, awnings blowing away with every storm, or shutters, which shut up and leave us in entire darkness.

    Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857

  • Based on the passion coupé or passion cabriolet, the smart fortwo edition greystyle includes all of the standard features of the well-appointed passion line such as power windows, air conditioning with automatic temperature control, and a panoramic roof with sunblind for the coupé.

    eMercedesBenz 2010

  • The 4. 4-litre TwinPower Turbo V8 range topping BMW 550i also receives: comfort seats with ventilation and heating, alarm, electric glass sunroof, electric sunblind for the rear window, exterior mirrors with antidazzle function,

    Car Advice | News | Reviews 2010

  • Automatic Soft Close doors and an electrically-powered sunblind for the rear window all feature as standard.

    Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox 2009

  • The latest BMW 730Ld builds on the standard-wheelbase specification with self-levelling rear suspension, chrome rain channels in the roof, illuminated interior rear vanity mirrors and an electrically-powered sunblind for the rear window.

    Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility 2009

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