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English
Etymology
From blind + man.
Noun
blindman (plural blindmen)
- (archaic) A man who is blind.
1923, Hervey Allen, The Blindman: A Ballad of Nogent L'Artaud:There crouched a Blindman by the wall
A-shivering in a ragged shawl,
Who gave a hopeless parrot screech
And felt the wall with halting reach.
Usage notes
- Now written as two words, blind man, except in the fixed phrases listed below.
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