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Jalousie   Listen
noun
Jalousie  n.  
1.
A Venetian or slatted inside window blind.
2.
A window or door made of multiple glass or plastic slats, which can be opened or closed like a jalousie (1).






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"Jalousie" Quotes from Famous Books



... letters on the subject. Grimm attributed his hostility to jealousy, and the fear that the Systeme de la Nature might "renverse le rituel de Ferney et que le patriarcat ne s'en aille au diable avec lui." [56:4] George Leroy went so far as to write a book entitled Reflexions sur la jalousie, pour servir de commentaire aux derniers ouvrages de M. de Voltaire, 1772. Frederick II naturally felt bound to defend the kings who, as Voltaire said, were no better treated than God in the Systeme de la ...
— Baron d'Holbach • Max Pearson Cushing

... upon which we now gazed, where all that was lavish in nature had been aided by the hand of man, cultivation subduing and enriching, till the region below us blushed in beauty; for we were looking down upon a lightly-built, pleasantly-shaded house, with its green jalousie-covered windows, and great creeper-burdened verandah, gaily-painted, and running ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn

... no great concern (for 'la jalousie retrospective,' as George Sand calls it, had nearly died out of him), 'however he might move 'ee, my love, he'll never come. He swore it to me: and he was a man ...
— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy



Words linked to "Jalousie" :   louver, shutter, louvre, fin, window



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