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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A blind or shutter having adjustable horizontal slats for regulating the passage of air and light.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An obsolete form of jealousy.
  2. n. A blind or shutter made with slats, which are usually set at an angle so as to exclude the sun and rain while allowing the air to enter.
  3. n. plural The whole surface or inclosure of a gallery, veranda, or the like, formed of a series of slatted frames (see def. 1), of which some may be fixed and some may open on hinges.

Wiktionary

  1. n. naval architecture A component in a ventilation system.
  2. n. Upward sloping window slats which form a blind or shutter, allowing light and air in but excluding rain and direct sun.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A Venetian or slatted inside window blind.
  2. n. A window or door made of multiple glass or plastic slats, which can be opened or closed like a jalousie{1}.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a window with glass louvers
  2. n. a shutter made of angled slats

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from jalousie, jealousy, from Old French gelosie, from gelos, jealous; see jealous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Dick looked about him, but could see nothing at all suitable until his gaze happened to fall upon the window of a house opposite him, which was closed by a kind of jalousie shutter.”

    In Search of El Dorado

  • “James Carl "jalousie" 2008 Installation view Courtesy of Diaz Contemporary/photo Toni Hafkenscheid”

    Canadian Art - Online

  • “A cramped sun porch wrapped in jalousie windows, sparsely furnished.”

    Simon & Schuster: Learning to Die in Miami

  • “The front window slid open, and in the back were jalousie windows that I cranked wide to let in the breeze.”

    Motel Paradiso

  • “Clawson tried to see through the corner of the jalousie with no success.”

    Simon & Schuster: Rain Gods

  • “He heard footsteps on the steel stairway, then a shadow crossed his window and someone tapped tentatively on the jalousie.”

    Simon & Schuster: Rain Gods

  • “I was introduced to Robbe-Grillet by my friend Robert Uth when I was still in my teens, with the famous Grove Press double of JEALOUSY and IN THE LABYRINTH, which pictured the author himself peering through the slats of a jalousie shade or venetian blind.”

    Archive 2008-02-17

  • “Bill Wood Woman demonstrating jalousie window unit”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Foils of Photography: Utility and Art

  • “Emily Luchetti's new book, "A Passion for Desserts" ($35), cleverly demystifies everything from coconut pavlovas to apricot jalousie tarts by explaining in concise steps how to construct all her desserts.”

    Newsweek: Books For Bakers Who Bake

  • “Turning, at length, into one of the numerous streets which branched from this main thoroughfare, they stopped before a rather mean – looking house with jalousie blinds to every window; a flight of steps before the green street – door; a shining white ornament on the rails on either side like a petrified pineapple, polished; a little oblong plate of the same material over the knocker whereon the name of”

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

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  • asativum Inspiring a bit of jalousie, eh? Sep 8, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi I saw this word for the first time about two months ago in Don Quixote. Now, I see it EVERYWHERE in EVERYTHING that I read. Even on CRAIGSLIST. For cryin' out loud! Sep 7, 2009

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