Crossword clues for jalousie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jalousie \Ja`lou`sie"\, n. [F. See Jealousy.]
A Venetian or slatted inside window blind.
A window or door made of multiple glass or plastic slats, which can be opened or closed like a jalousie[1].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1766, French, literally "jealousy" (see jealousy), from notion of looking through blinds without being seen.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en naval architecture) 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.
WordNet
n. a window with glass louvers [syn: louvered window]
a shutter made of angled slats
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "jalousie".
When he heard this, Don Quixote was dumbfounded, because at that instant he remembered an infinite number of adventures similar to this one, with windows, jalousies, gardens, music, amorous compliments, and swoons, which he had read in his delusive books of chivalry.
After taking their vows of poverty, silence, and chastity, their only communication with the outside world was a rare visit held in the locutory where wooden jalousies admitted voices but not light.
After taking their vows of poverty, silence, and chastity, their only communication with the outside world was a rare visit held in the locutory where wooden jalousies admitted voices but not light.
But when Longarm shut the jalousies he saw there was far more breeze than light coming up through the slanted slats.
He flung open the jalousies so he could see what he was doing as he gave himself a whore-bath and shaved at the corner washstand.
He moved over to the shuttered window overlooking the street and flung the jalousies wide.
In it was a deep, wide bay window closely shuttered with gray jalousies, as were all the other windows in the room except for one fronting on darkness beside the fireplace.
But they were jalousies, and no goblin could force its way through one of them without considerable effort.
Even though she set it and its basket on the knickknack shelf next to the front jalousie window, she didn't look or sound as though she liked her gift very much.
The first shot sailed wide to the left and shattered a jalousie window.
I knew before the intruder could make that yield, she would have time to put the bed in order, to close the jalousies, to cast on her robe de chambre, to put out of sight the claret bottle and the glasses, and I was content.