What's the difference between jalousie and louver?

Jalousie


Definition:

  • (n.) A Venetian or slatted inside window blind.

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  • (1) The sprawling slum of Jalousie, the terraced area in Port au Prince, was painted in a multitude of colours, “ urban botox ” style, to give a better view for the guests at a new upmarket hotel.
  • (2) After a washing-out period of 92 days (24-283) and after surgery had been unsuccessful in 9 patients, standard thoracoplasty was performed, complemented by a "jalousie" ("Venetian blind") plasty after Heller.
  • (3) These different situations are illustrated by sexual dysfunctions (some forms of impotence and frigidity), hostile rejection and homosexual panic, jalousy, triolism and alcoholic aspects.
  • (4) Early in the 1980s, Tennant paid around £200,000 for Jalousie Plantation, 488 acres of virgin rainforest in St Lucia.

Louver


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Louvre

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