louver
noun
any of a series of narrow openings framed at their longer edges with slanting, overlapping fins or slats, adjustable for admitting light and air while shutting out rain.
louvered
-
a word derived from
louver.
Example Sentences
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Inflation-whipped consumers began to balk at paying $22,500 for a 10-by-16-foot louvered pergola — kind of a gazebo without walls — that was sold through dealers.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
The rafter also helps ventilate the space in summer, since it contains a large louvered window that can be opened to catch breezes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
Even in houses like mine where the shutters don’t actually work — where they’re just pieces of louvered plastic that are screwed into the exterior wall — you must have them, he argued.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2021
Under that famous louvered hood is a 40-kWh battery pack sized to fit the space vacated by the 4.2-liter inline six.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2018
She has told me both, as it is awkward her father shouting her real name just below my louvered window when she’s supposed to come feed the hens—it is a poultry farm.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
