jalousie
noun
[ ˈʒalʊziː ]
• a blind or shutter made of a row of angled slats.
• "he peeped between the half-open jalousies"
Origin:
mid 18th century: French, literally ‘jealousy’, from Italian geloso ‘jealous’, also (by extension) ‘screen’, associated with the screening of women from view in the Middle East.
