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jalousie

[′jal·ə·sē]
(building construction)
A window that consists of a number of long, narrow panels, each hinged at the top.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

jalousie

A shutter or blind with fixed or adjustable slats which exclude rain and provide ventilation, shade, and visual privacy.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Au debut du roman, cette jalousie enfantine est un peu apaisee, mais le feu couve sous la cendre, comme l'indique cette reflexion du narrateur : << L'envie restait cachee dans le fond du coeur >> (83).
Cette humiliation est le principe de cette jalousie devorante a l'encontre d'Adeline, qui prend rapidement une force pathologique : << La jalousie formait la base de ce caractere >> (81).
En effet, les emotions que Bette ressent pour son jeune amoureux sont tres ambigues et contradictoires, comme ne cesse de le souligner le narrateur : << elle surveillait cet enfant du Nord avec la tendresse d'une mere, avec la jalousie dune femme et ('esprit d'un dragon.
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Notions of secrecy and exposure are also found in the other meaning of the French word jalousie: Male possessiveness is said to have motivated the invention of the window blind, which allowed women in harems a fleeting glimpse of the street, while at the same time keeping them out of sight.
Caption: Bernard Voita, Jalousie I (Venetian Blinds I), 2017.
Bernard Voita: Galerie Laurence Bernard

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