Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Valvatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

VALVA'TUS. Having doors or window-shutters, comprised in several pieces, which fold up behind each other in the manner explained and illustrated by the last example. Vitruv. iv. 6. 5. Id. vi. 3. 10. Varro, L. L. viii. 29.