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  • adjective An alternative US spelling of louvered; the only spelling of this word in UK English.

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Examples

  • Jamie Lloyd's first-rate production intersplices the martial and the romantic to disturbing effect from the beginning: light filters prettily through Christopher Oram's lovely louvred-door design on to the couple tussling amorously in bed.

    Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust Susannah Clapp 2010

  • A thermometer, a hygrometer, and the other thermograph were placed in a screen on high posts, and with louvred sides, which stood at a distance of fifteen yards to the south-west of the house.

    The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim 2009

  • The finely detailed, louvred, inclined plane presenting an alternative to the typical suburban facades.

    NSW Architecture Awards Announced: Gorgeous Oz-chitecture | Inhabitat 2008

  • There, most of the families we knew lived in houses like the one on Rowland Road: gracious, sprawling, one-or-two-storeyed bungalows in red or white or cream brick, the louvred window shutters painted in green or blue.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • A thermometer, a hygrometer, and the other thermograph were placed in a screen on high posts, and with louvred sides, which stood at a distance of fifteen yards to the south-west of the house.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

  • They were plaster-lined, with only a louvred vent at the back for light.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • Ntsika told a later inquest that Mabija was returning from a toilet when he ran through an open door and fell from a louvred window.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Assemblies Act, was returning from a toilet in the police station when he ran through an open door and fell from a louvred window.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Various systems of paling fences and screen walls have been devised consisting of louvred or overlapping timber boards or planks.

    3. Design rules 1993

  • This is further improved in the case of a louvred sunshade

    3. Design rules 1993

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