louver
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- louvre (mainly UK)
Etymology[edit]
From Old French lover.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
louver (plural louvers)
- A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.10:
- 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, The Faerie Queene, VI.10:
- (chiefly in the plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. [from 16th c.]
- Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a ventilating turret or lantern
a slatted opening in a wall, door or window
a system of slits for ventilation
