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Jalousie

noun
1.
A window with glass louvers.  Synonym: louvered window.
2.
A shutter made of angled slats.





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"Jalousie" Quotes from Famous Books



... Humilier ce front de splendeur couronn, Et confondant l'orgueil par d'augustes exemples, Baiser avec respect le pav de tes temples. De ta gloire anim, lui seul de tant de rois S'arme pour ta querelle, et combat pour tes droits. 30 Le perfide intrt, l'aveugle jalousie S'unissent centre toi pour l'affreuse hrsie; La discorde en fureur frmit de toutes parts; Tout semble abandonner tes sacrs etendards, Et l'enfer, couvrant tout de ses vapeurs funbres, 35 Sur les yeux les plus saints a jet ses tnbres. Lui seul, invariable ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... feras imaige De quelque chose que ce soit, Sy bonneur luy fail on hommaige, Bon Dieu jalousie en recoit, ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... joining in the laugh—well, at the silliness of the clergy, who seem indeed not to know their own business. It is we, the laity, he would urge, who are serious, and disinterested, because sincerely interested, in these great questionings. Jalousie de metier, the reader may suspect, has something to do with [66] the Professional leaders on both sides of the controversy; but at the actual turn controversy took just then, it was against the Jesuit ...
— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater


Words linked to "Jalousie" :   louvered window, louver, louvre, shutter, fin, window


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