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jalousie

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jal·ou·sie  (jl-s)
n.
A blind or shutter having adjustable horizontal slats for regulating the passage of air and light.
[French, from jalousie, jealousy, from Old French gelosie, from gelos, jealous; see jealous.]
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Noun1.jalousiejalousie - a window with glass louvers          
louvered window
window - a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
2.jalousie - a shutter made of angled slats
louver, louvre, fin - one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
shutter - a hinged blind for a window


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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.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
The house was painted a dazzling white; the outside shutters, or jalousies, were green.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
The glow of a sunshiny day was toned down by closed jalousies to a mere transparency of darkness.
The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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