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Blind windows; so called because many windows were blocked up when William Pitt augmented the Window Tax in 1784, and again in 1797.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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