Definitions for persiennes

persiennes per·si·ennes

Spelling: [pur-zee-enz; French per-syen]
IPA: /ˌpɜr ziˈɛnz; French pɛrˈsyɛn/

Persiennes is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 293 anagrams from letters in persiennes (eeeinnprss).

Definitions for persiennes

noun

  1. (used with a plural verb) Persian blinds.
  2. (used with a singular verb) a printed or painted fabric of cotton or silk.

Origin of persiennes

1835-45; French, noun use of plural of persienne, feminine of persien, obsolete variant of persan Persian

Examples for persiennes

She got up, walked across the floor to the open window and unfastened the persiennes.

She watched the sunshine coming in bars through the persiennes, and her immediate surroundings again melted away.

He looked at the windows; those on the ground floor were provided with wooden shutters, those on the first floor with persiennes.

Very different to the lazy drawing up of a roller-blind in England is the swinging open of a pair of French persiennes.

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