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jalousie [ˈʒælʊˌziː] n
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a window blind or shutter constructed from angled slats of wood, plastic, etc. 2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a window made of similarly angled slats of glass [from Old French gelosie latticework screen, literally: jealousy, perhaps because one can look through the screen without being seen] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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The white wooden houses (so white that it makes one wink to look at them), with their green jalousie blinds, are so sprinkled and dropped about in all directions, without seeming to have any root at all in the ground; and the small churches and chapels are so prim, and bright, and highly varnished; that I almost believed the whole affair could be taken up piecemeal like a child's toy, and crammed into a little box. The house was painted a dazzling white; the outside shutters, or jalousies, were green. The glow of a sunshiny day was toned down by closed jalousies to a mere transparency of darkness. |
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