[F., = jealousy; also as here.] A blind or shutter made with slats that 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.]
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.
Hence Jalousied a., provided with a jalousie.
1847. Mrs. Sherwood, Life, xvii. 317. Many vast doorways, having their green jalousied doors.
1889. Pall Mall Gaz., 30 Aug., 3/1. Its narrow, crooked, ill-paved streets, of tall jalousied houses.
