Jalouse vs Jalousie - What's the difference?
jalouse | jalousie |
(Scotland) To suspect.
(misused by southern writers) To be jealous of.
* 1885': when my two sisters (these two bitches, O Commander of the Faithful!) saw me by the side of my young lover they '''jaloused me on his account and were wroth and plotted mischief against me. — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 18
(label) A component in a ventilation system.
Upward sloping window slats which form a blind or shutter, allowing light and air in but excluding rain and direct sun.
* (rfdate) “A small lofty room, with its window wide open, and the wooden jalousie -blinds closed, so that the dark night only showed in slight horizontal lines of black, alternating with their broad lines of stone colour.”'' — Dickens, ''Tale of Two Cities