jalousie

Definitions

1. A component in a ventilation system.
2. Upward sloping window slats which form a blind or shutter, allowing light and air in but excluding rain and direct sun.
3. A pastry with the upper side sliced before final baking to resemble a wooden slatted blind.

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Examples

“A small lofty room, with its window wide open⟳, and the wooden jalousie-blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.”

“Nowhere the glitter of a glass casement; Venetian blinds, jalousies, closed every window, and rooms projected in all directions to catch⟳ the luxury of a through-draft of air.”

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