Jenny Linda, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Jenny Linda n.

also Jenny Linder

[rhy. sl.; ult. see Jenny Lind n.]

a window.

1857		‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 18: Jenny-Linder n. Window, pronounced winder.
1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 144: JENNY LINDER, a winder, — vulgar pronunciation of window.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 46: jenny linda A window, pronounced winder.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859].
1873		Sl. Dict.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 39: Jenny Linda, a widow [sic].
1901		Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 6/4: A widow [sic] is known to him as a Jenny Linda.