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One of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
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louver
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also louvre , early 14c., "domed turret-like structure atop a building to disperse smoke and admit light," from Old French lovier , of uncertain origin. One theory connects it to Medieval Latin *lodarium , which might be from a Germanic source (compare ...
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n. one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain [syn: louvre , fin ]
Usage examples of louver.
Some blue-flowered rock-creeper vines had worked their way in through the louver and spread across the ceiling.
He froze, glancing at the floor, at the narrow bands of light that came in through a small louver at the bottom of the door.
The dim light seeping through the open louvers managed to push the shadow back, and all at once, Benedikt wanted to be on the other side of that fragile barricade.
It was protected by heavy louvers, set a few inches back in the opening.
He reached through the louvers and felt the metal jaws pulling together.
It was full of dusty sunlight from narrow slits of louvers set high in a soaring roof.
The muted daylight falling through the louvers in the roof seemed to be tinted more toward late afternoon, but it was hard to tell.
It was dank and a little dusty, with some flowering creepers growing down from one of the louvers in the curving roof.
She was half suspecting an ambush but the corridor was well lit by sunlight falling through the louvers and unless someone had buried himself under the heavy rubble, it was unoccupied.
But framed in that archway, lit by shafts of sunlight from the louvers in the tall arched ceiling and outlined against the pale blue-white stone, there was a ship.
Obelin stopped at a circle at the further end of the room, directly under the point of the high roof, the louvers throwing half of it into warm daylight.
The slivers of light through the louvers showed him in profile while she, Crystal was sure, was invisible against the darkness of the room.
I said, adjusted the slats of the louvers, revealing an elegant living room.
The rains are gray solid sheets of water, slamming into the mock-Spanish house with sudden sideways ferocity and soaking everything, slashing through the window louvers and damping beds and curtains until everything seems heavy and turning-green with moisture.
The light came through high green louvers, and not a single fly buzzed through the still air.