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Blindfold   /blˈaɪndfˌoʊld/   Listen
Blindfold

noun
1.
A cloth used to cover the eyes.
verb
(past & past part. blindfolded; pres. part. blindfolding)
1.
Cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing.
adjective
1.
Wearing a blindfold.  Synonym: blindfolded.






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"Blindfold" Quotes from Famous Books



... fern-owls and bats and night-moths. Take care of the branch, Mr. Herrick, or you will knock your head. It will be lighter on the road outside. I am so used to this path that I think I could find my way blindfold." ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... hardest heart; yet, all circumstances coolly considered, I think the young lady deserves most to be pitied, being left in the terrible situation of a young and, I suppose, rich widowhood; which is walking blindfold upon stilts amidst precipices, though perhaps as little sensible of her danger, as a child of a quarter old would be in the paws of a monkey leaping on the tiles ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... Carrados. "If someone dipped a stick in treacle and wrote 'Rats' across a marble slab you would probably be able to distinguish what was there, blindfold." ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah

... his innocence of all suspicion that it was Leap Year, by fixing on the twenty-ninth of February, in the full persuasion that it was the first of March. Pledged to try the surgeon's experiment, I left his error uncorrected, of course. In so doing, I took my first step blindfold toward the last act in the drama ...
— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various

... the vapours played At blindfold in the city streets, Their elfin fingers caught and stayed The sunbeams, as they wound their sheets Into a filmy barricade 'Twixt earth ...
— Flint and Feather • E. Pauline Johnson


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