Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with jalousies.
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- adjective Fitted with
jalousies (window slats).
Etymologies
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Examples
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He talks wearily as the neighbors stare at us from their jalousied windows.
Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then 2010
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He talks wearily as the neighbors stare at us from their jalousied windows.
Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then 2010
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He talks wearily as the neighbors stare at us from their jalousied windows.
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He talked wearily of getting lower wages than the less experienced white gardeners, as the neighbors stared at us from their jalousied windows.
Lea Lane: Reflections on Racism as I Vote for Barack Obama 2008
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The rooms Were illuminated at night by brass lamps and during the day by bars of sunlight filtering in through the wide jalousied windows.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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Nicholas was staring out the jalousied window where lights sparked and danced on the river.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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Aqueous light, tinged by neon, seeped in through the jalousied windows.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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The jalousied windows gave the street a delicious foreign look.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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A broad and partly jalousied balcony extended entirely around the three sides of the building, fronting the court.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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At the fine stone house, with its green-jalousied windows, which M. d'Ogeron had built himself in a spacious and luxuriant garden to the east of Cayona, the Captain became
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912
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