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Louver vs Grille - What's the difference?

louver | grille |

As a noun louver

is a type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.

As a verb grille is

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louver

English

(Wikipedia)

Alternative forms

* louvre (mainly UK )

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.10:
    • But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover , / But with continuall candle-light […].
  • Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.

    • Derived terms

    * louvered, louvred

    See also

    * jalousie

    Anagrams

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    grille

    English

    (wikipedia grille)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rack, vehicle cover, etc.)
  • *
  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
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