window-shutter love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shutter used to darken or secure a window.

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Examples

  • A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Then she remembered that on stepping in by the casement and closing it, she had not fastened the window-shutter, so that a streak of light from the interior of the room might have revealed her vigil to an observer on the lawn.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • Henri then sprung across the room, and, opening a window-shutter, they perceived, that the man had fallen over a chair near the hearth, in which Ludovico had been sitting; — for he sat there no longer, nor could any where be seen by the imperfect light, that was admitted into the apartment.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • The bed had not been disturbed; the window-shutter was barred.

    The Room in the Dragon Volant 2003

  • He soon found the little hole in the window-shutter, and probing it with the point of his pencil, came upon the morsel of lead which might now just as readily have been within his own brain.

    Can You Forgive Her? 1993

  • Stopping at last, he knocked thrice against a window-shutter; an adjacent door was opened at the signal, and he passed through a corridor into a cheerful and well-lighted apartment.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • Again, if we place a solution of nitre in a room which has the light admitted only through a small hole in the window-shutter, crystals will form most abundantly upon the side of the basin exposed to the aperture through which the light enters, and often the whole mass of crystals will turn towards it.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831 Various

  • For example, suppose we have a window-shutter with a small hole in it, while in the garden fronting the window there stands a tree.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • Who, in a country town, on a market day, has not seen tradesmen cocking their eye, apprentices glowering through the shop front, and ladies subdolously peeping behind the window-shutter to catch a glimpse of the "member for our town," and, having seen him, think they are rather happier then they were before?

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

  • So, one Sunday afternoon, four of them climbed over the back gate into the yard, pried open a window-shutter, got in, and helped themselves to whatever they could lay their hands on.

    The Runaway The Adventures of Rodney Roverton Unknown

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