‖ jalousie
(ʒaluzi)
[F., = jealousy; also as here.]
A blind or shutter made with slats which slope upwards from without, so as to exclude sun and rain, and admit air and some light.
| [1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Gelosia, iealousie, also a window lid. 1598 Florio, Gelosia, iealousie,..a letteise window or drawing window.] 1766 Duchess of Northumberland Diary 23 Oct. (1926) 76, Rows of Seats with Jalousies in Front that they [sc. the women] may not be seen. 1824 Blackw. Mag. XV. 462 We have jalousies not only to our windows but to our breasts. 1833 Marryat P. Simple xxx, Houses after houses..with their green jalousies, dotting the landscape. 1851 Ord. & Regul. R. Engineers xix. 90 The Galleries, instead of being always open to the Sun and Weather, should have Jalousies, in fixed and moveable portions. 1859 Tennent Ceylon (ed. 2) II. 153 Their floors are tiled, and the doors and windows formed of Venetian jalousies. 1961 I. Fleming Thunderball xxiv. 254 Inside the small room, the jalousies threw bands of light and shadow over the bed. 1974 K. Benton Craig & Tunisian Tangle v. 47 Tall windows shielded against the sun by wooden jalousies. |
Hence ˈjalousied a., provided with a jalousie.
| 1847 Mrs. Sherwood Life xvii. 317 Vast doorways, having their green jalousied doors. 1889 Pall Mall G. 30 Aug. 3/1 Crooked, ill-paved streets, of tall jalousied houses. |