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jalousied

jalousied adjective: fitted with jalousies (window slats).

Adjective

jalousied (not comparable)

  1. Fitted with jalousies (window slats).
    • It is indispensable that the whole be well ventilated, the windows jalousied, reaching from the ceiling to the floor, made to open as folding doors so that the ventilation be free as if the roof rested only on pillars.1820, Robert Jackson, A Sketch of the History and Cure of Febrile Diseases: More Particularly as They Appear in the West-Indies among the Soldiers of the British Army, London: Baldwin, Craddock &...
    • The light burned, the reader closed the roll of the Law, the leaders of the synagogues in the chief seats, facing the congregation, looked down their beards at their hands folded upon their knees; the women stirred faintly in the jalousied galleries; and the carpenter rose and sat in the seat of...1915, Mary Hunter Austin, The Man Jesus, London: Harper & Bros., Chapter, p. 35

Examples of jalousied in a sentence

  • Lights went on downstairs, lit up the yard and reflected through the jalousied door into Mr Biswas’s room.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 6:
  • Some of the film is set in the jalousied interiors of Moorish bedrooms, or in desert cities such as Sana’a, with its towers of baked mud decorated with white scrolls and borders like piped icing.1994, Marina Warner, “Magic zones”, in London Review of Books, XVI.23:

Origin of jalousied

From jalousie + -ed.

Questions about jalousied

What does jalousied mean?
Jalousied means fitted with jalousies (window slats).
How do you use jalousied in a sentence?
Lights went on downstairs, lit up the yard and reflected through the jalousied door into Mr Biswas’s room.
What part of speech is jalousied?
Jalousied is an adjective.

Words near jalousied in the dictionary

  1. Jalore
  2. jalouse
  3. jaloused
  4. jalouses
  5. jalousie
  6. jalousied
  7. jalousies
  8. jalousing
  9. Jalpaiguri
  10. Jalpaiguri division
  11. jalpaite

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