chick-blinds

Noun

 * 1)  A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
 * 2) * 1895, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Letter to Miss 'Leila' Hamilton, in Agnes Giberne, The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 206,
 * I have, however, "chick" blinds to my outer doors; these are made of thin split bamboos; and if I let them down, no one can see in.