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A window blind.

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Usage examples (36)
  • To keep the sun from blazing in, she adjusted the jalousie.
  • James Carl "jalousie" 2008 Installation view Courtesy of Diaz Contemporary/photo Toni Hafkenscheid
  • Bill Wood Woman demonstrating jalousie window unit
  • A cramped sun porch wrapped in jalousie windows, sparsely furnished.
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  • Every detail about the neighbor's house piqued her "jealousy," (resentment or envy) even the "jalousie!" (slanted window shutter).
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