windowscreen
See also: window screen
English
Noun
windowscreen (plural windowscreens)
- A mesh screen fixed against a window to prevent insects from entering.
- 2007 December 9, “Words of the World”, in New York Times:
- Another Autumn, for instance, is a series of one-line sketches — a feathering of the ink whereby characters lose definition is followed by overlapping windowscreens, one pattern interfering with another, which is in turn followed by sideways, all the politeness, all that irony, trying for a draw (an echo of a line from A Pillow-Book, a much earlier O'Brien poem).
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