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plural louvers
A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. quotations examples
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, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
(chiefly in the plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. examples
Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation. examples