louver
A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow…A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
Meaning
3 sensesA type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
Lüftungsgitter
(in the plural)A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc.
one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.
Lüftungsschlitz
жалюзи́žaljuzí, жалюзи́žaljuzí
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English lover, from Old French lovier, lover (“skylight”), from MediInherited from Middle English lover, from Old French lovier, lover (“skylight”), from Medieval Latin *lōdārium (attested as lōvārium), extension of lōdium, of unclear origin, but probably of Germanic origin and related to Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”). Compare Old Norse ljóri.
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