OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15525

jalousie

/ˈʒalʊziː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
celosía
Upward sloping window slats which form a blind or shutter, allowing light and air in but excluding rain and direct sun.
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…
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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