jalousie
Americannoun
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a blind or shutter made with horizontal slats that can be adjusted to admit light and air but exclude rain and the rays of the sun.
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a window made of glass slats or louvers of a similar nature.
noun
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a window blind or shutter constructed from angled slats of wood, plastic, etc
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a window made of similarly angled slats of glass
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Etymology
Origin of jalousie
1585–95; < French < Italian gelosia jealousy; so called because such blinds afford a view while hiding the viewer
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Example Sentences
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One of them was Ira Lowenthal, an American anthropologist and art collector we interviewed for hours on his terrace overlooking Jalousie, a shantytown in the heart of Port-au-Prince.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2017
It was a piece jointly created by a collective of choreographers and artists, inspired by the nouveau roman La Jalousie by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013
An audience of 6,000, some sipping soft drinks, enthusiastically listened to Jezebel, Jalousie, High Noon, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
They met Allain at dawn, one mile from Falaise, on the edge of a wood near the hamlet of Jalousie; he took them across Aubigny to an isolated inn at the end of the village.
From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]
These are, 'La Jalousie du Barbouillé,' and 'Le Médecin Volant.'
From The Jealousy of le Barbouillé (La Jalousie du Barbouillé) by Wall, Charles Heron
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