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lovour

lovour is the obsolete form of louver.

Meaning of louver

Noun

louver (plural louvers)

  1. A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
    • But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, / But with continuall candle-light […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc.
  3. Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.

Questions about lovour

What is lovour the obsolete form of?
Lovour is the obsolete form of louver.

Words near lovour in the dictionary

  1. lovish
  2. Lovitt
  3. Lovitts
  4. lovo
  5. lovos
  6. lovour
  7. lovozerite
  8. lovviedom
  9. Lovvorn
  10. Lovvorns
  11. lovyer

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