Meanings
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noun
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 broad lines of stone colour.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French jalousie. Doublet of jealousy.