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Definition of Louver

1. Noun. One of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain.

Definition of Louver

1. n. A small lantern. See Lantern, 2 (a).

Definition of Louver

1. a type of window [n -S] : LOUVERED [adj]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Louver

lousiness lousinesses lousing lousy lousy lout louted louting loutish loutishly

loutishness loutishnesses loutou louts louvar louver (current term) louvered louvered window louvers louvre

louvred louvres Louvre Museum Lou Gehrig lou gehrig's disease Lou Gehrig's disease lovabilities lovability lovable lovableness

Literary usage of Louver

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1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"One of the boards or slats of a louver ; written also Louvre and Luffer Board. ... louver WINDOW. A window opening arranged as a louver in sense JÍ. ..."

2. American Steam and Hot-water Heating Practice (1895)
"louver IN VENTILATOR FOR TRAIN- SHED ROOF TO LET OUT SMOKE AND EXCLUDE SNOW. ... There can be no louver designed which will ventilate a trainshed and at the ..."

3. Naval Hygiene by James Duncan Gatewood (1909)
"The specification change of air in a wardroom officer's stateroom is about once in 8 minutes by its one louver, in the wardroom country in 12 minutes by ..."

4. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1892)
"... the deuce having been improperly dealt with the louver Appellate Court ; and we were ped either to remand the case for a new i between the same parties, ..."

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