louver

[ loo-ver ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

Origin of louver¹

1325–75; Middle English lover < Middle French lovier < Middle Dutch love gallery. See lobby

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.

For Pim o Cuddys pigeons knew their way home through the broken louver-boards of the squat belfry by this.

The fire of pine logs was in the midst of the hall, and the smoke went out through a louver in the roof.

The bird was wheeling in the golden light over the belfry of the church, the belfry with the new louver-boards.

Forepaugh leaped to the ventilating louver and closed it tightly.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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