Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
shade, blind (nn.)
These devices for blocking light and providing privacy at windows have different regional names in English. Some Americans call the pull-down, cloth-on-a-roller device a shade; some call it a blind. (The British stick pretty much to blinds.) Americans have many compound names for the various types: roller shades, Venetian blinds, Roman shades or Roman blinds, and bamboo shades or bamboo blinds, for example.
