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‖ jalousie|ʒaluzi|
[F., = jealousy; also as here.]
A blind or shutter made with slats which slope upwards from without, so as to exclude sun and rain, and admit air and some light.
[1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Gelosia, iealousie, also a window lid. 1598Florio, Gelosia, iealousie,..a letteise window or drawing window.] 1766Duchess of Northumberland Diary 23 Oct. (1926) 76, Rows of Seats with Jalousies in Front that they [sc. the women] may not be seen. 1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 462 We have jalousies not only to our windows but to our breasts. 1833Marryat P. Simple xxx, Houses after houses..with their green jalousies, dotting the landscape. 1851Ord. & Regul. R. Engineers xix. 90 The Galleries, instead of being always open to the Sun and Weather, should have Jalousies, in fixed and moveable portions. 1859Tennent Ceylon (ed. 2) II. 153 Their floors are tiled, and the doors and windows formed of Venetian jalousies. 1961I. Fleming Thunderball xxiv. 254 Inside the small room, the jalousies threw bands of light and shadow over the bed. 1974K. Benton Craig & Tunisian Tangle v. 47 Tall windows shielded against the sun by wooden jalousies.
Hence ˈjalousied a., provided with a jalousie.
1847Mrs. Sherwood Life xvii. 317 Vast doorways, having their green jalousied doors. 1889Pall Mall G. 30 Aug. 3/1 Crooked, ill-paved streets, of tall jalousied houses. |