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a strip of cloth that turns trust into a contact sport and darkness into a choice
means A piece of cloth tied over someone's eyes to block their sight, often used in games, surprises, or to prevent a person from seeing where they're going.
from Despite how it looks, the second half was never about "folding." The original word was "blindfeld" — to strike someone blind, from Old English "blind" plus a verb meaning to fell or strike down. Over the centuries people heard that unfamiliar "-feld" ending and quietly reshaped it into the more sensible-seeming "fold," as if the cloth were being folded over the eyes. A rare case of a word being corrected into a thing it never originally meant.
- chess feat
- Masters play dozens of games blindfolded simultaneously
- firing squads
- Worn to spare the shooters, not the shot
- justice icon
- Lady Justice's blindfold appeared only in the 1500s
- sensory swap
- Removing sight sharpens hearing and touch noticeably
- taste tests
- Blindfolding tricks experts into mistaking white wine for red
marco polo game — children's swimming game where one blindfolded player tries to tag others by sound
blind man's bluff — traditional tag game dating to at least the 1500s where a blindfolded player catches others