shutters

One of the window shutters is partly ajar; when the wind picks up it takes to banging against the sill.

Excerpt: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie 2009

We have hurricane glass now, so my major per-hurricane activity of putting up metal shutters is a thing of the past.

Discourse.net: Fay 2008

The strobes keep flashing; the shutters are a din of clicking.

Famous Todd Strasser 2011

The strobes keep flashing; the shutters are a din of clicking.

Famous Todd Strasser 2011

Next to the weaver's shop was a cabinet-maker's, and there the shutters were a light brown.

The Shadow Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 2001

On the outside of the shutters are the angel Gabriel and

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

All the shops fast asleep, with their eyelids closed, that is, their shutters up, all except one establishment, garishly lighted and of defiantly rakish, appearance, with the words

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891 Various

And it is certain that to be off upon a journey with a rucksack strapped upon you at an hour when the butcher boy takes down his shutters is a high pleasure.

Chimney-Pot Papers Fritz August Gottfried Endell 1906

In this quarter, on the polling-day, the police were in strong force, and the liquor-shops were all closed -- that is, the shutters of those dens of iniquity were up; but as the doors were open there was no difficulty in obtaining strong drink.

Election Day in New York 1864

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick room or a bedroom there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited, though the air had never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air, of air i.e. unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860