louver
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.
to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
Origin of louver
1- Also especially British, lou·vre .
Other words from louver
- louvered, adjective
Words that may be confused with louver
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How to use louver in a sentence
Except for heavy louvers instead of panels, they are much like shutters.
The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia | Frank CousinsStables should be as light as living rooms, but with louvers to darken them in summer, in order to keep out the flies.
Sometimes a cat was used to open and shut the louvers of the smoke outlet in the roof.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. | S. A. ReillyThe exterior shutters consist of a single panel of fixed louvers and much shutter hardware survives.
Huntley | Tony P. WrennOpenings fitted with louvers are now utilized for the purposes of ventilation in schools and manufactories.
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