wind-screen

[ wind-skreen, win- ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. windshield.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wind-screen¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

I climbed over and sat beside him, staring in front of it through the wind-screen.

From Literature

She stopped beside an empty motor-car in order to put her hat straight with the help of the wind-screen, in which it was reflected, then she smoothed down her frock and tucked her umbrella more securely under her arm so that the handle, or rather the parrot, could be seen by everybody.

From Literature

The front passengers all shot through the front windscreen and the back passengers all shot through the back wind-screen.

From Literature

As the altimeter needle brushes five thousand feet, we crest a mud-colored ridge, the earth drops away, and a breathtaking sweep of taiga fills the Plexiglas wind-screen.

From Literature

Bending low behind the wind-screen, the plate-glass of which was already "starred" in several places by the impact of the bullets, the general urged the car straight in the direction of the men on his left.

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