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jaloused | jalousied |

As a verb jaloused

is past tense of jalouse.

As an adjective jalousied is

fitted with jalousies (window slats).

jaloused

English

Verb

(head)
  • (jalouse)

    • jalouse

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (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

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    jalousied

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Fitted with jalousies (window slats).
  • * 1994 , (Marina Warner), "Magic zones", London Review of Books , XVI.23:
    • Some of the film is set in the jalousied interiors of Moorish bedrooms, or in desert cities such as Sana’a, with its towers of baked mud decorated with white scrolls and borders like piped icing.