jalousie

• The novel mostly consists of very precisely-described scenes, often things half-seen through the wooden slats of the jalousie windows of a banana plantation in a French colony somewhere in the tropics; and through these descriptions, written landscapes and still-lives as it were, Robbe-Grillet revealed one man's intense jealousy towards his wife's friendship with another man. —  UUpdates - All updates
• We unfolded the jalousie shutters and found the entire city pitched in darkness, save for the top floor of the hotel Habana Libre across the street, its sign furred by a brightened rain. —  VQR
• Boots: 'La jalousie Suede Boots' (moonlight) By Gbberish rock / rock chic —  Fashion World of SL
• I ogled the architecture, the mash of styles-Eastern Bloc with art nouveau touches in the ironwork, and two-story Caribbean concrete boxes, lightened a little by tall jalousie doors and windows. —  VQR
• Just see if you can find anything that will do, Dick, there's a good chap 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

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