All 3 Uses of
Venetian
in
Atlas Shrugged
- They were strips of sunlight from the Venetian blinds on the window of an unfamiliar room.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- But they were not bars any longer, they were the cracks of a wall which the John Galt Line had broken, the advance notice of what awaited them outside, beyond the Venetian blinds-she thought of the trip back, on the new rail, with the first train from Wyatt Junction-the trip back to her office in the Taggart Building and to all the things now open for her to win-but she was free to let it wait, she did not want to think of it, she was thinking of the first touch of his mouth on hers-she was free to feel it, to hold a moment when nothing else was of any concern-she smiled defiantly at the strips of sky beyond the blinds.†
Chpt 1.9
- He noticed a vase of Venetian glass-a museum piece, centuries old, with an intricate system of blue and gold arteries twisting through its transparent body.†
Chpt 3.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(Venetian as in: Venetian canals) relating to Venice or its people
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
Venetian blind describes a popular kind of window blind.