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louver
[ loo-ver ]
noun
- any of a series of narrow openings framed at their longer edges with slanting, overlapping fins or slats, adjustable for admitting light and air while shutting out rain.
- a fin or slat framing such an opening.
- a ventilating turret or lantern, as on the roof of a medieval building.
- any of a system of slits formed in the hood of an automobile, the door of a metal locker, etc., used especially for ventilation.
- a door, window, or the like, having adjustable louvers.
verb (used with object)
- to make a louver in; add louvers to:
to louver a door.
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- louvered adjective
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Example Sentences
By good luck, we did not need it; for as he passed it to me, the louver at which I was tugging broke and came away in my hand.
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For Pim o Cuddys pigeons knew their way home through the broken louver-boards of the squat belfry by this.
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The fire of pine logs was in the midst of the hall, and the smoke went out through a louver in the roof.
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The bird was wheeling in the golden light over the belfry of the church, the belfry with the new louver-boards.
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Forepaugh leaped to the ventilating louver and closed it tightly.
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