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At the Commandant's jalousied house on Key West's submarine base�which Harry Truman now calls the "Winter White House"�the President had found privacy and relaxation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the jalousied door was a brass plate with the word "Captain"; just below the plate was a card on which appeared, in bold and rather straggling handwriting, the intimation: "Don't knock—come in."

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

There nine great windows, green jalousied, gave upon a wide balcony.

From The Island Mystery by Birmingham, George A.

Returning to his cabin—a single-berth one on the port side—Schoeffer closed the deadlight and drew a curtain over the jalousied door.

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

It was a beautiful room we were in, all jalousied and curtained, all thoroughly tropical in appearance, while every nick-nack around us was mother’s—her work-box, writing-desk, books, everything.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon