The word "slats" is correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used when referring to thin wooden or metal blades, often used to make a fence or an item of furniture. For example, "The windows had wooden slats for privacy."
Sharen arrived home to find an orange glow breathing deep beneath the slats in the deck.
6 rue des Remparts, Saint-Valéry-en-Caux, +33 2 3597 1122, lamaisondesgalets.com, doubles from €75 Rather than the typical Normandy half-timbered manor house, Hôtel des Iles resembles a house on the Hamptons, covered with grey wooden slats and a boardwalk terrace that looks right out on to the beach.
The outside of the pots are also doused in the water, which drains down into the slats of a wooden tray.
They were planning on spending the evening and a good part of the night walking there.On the way, we drive past an old man carrying a large calabash with metal slats fitted inside a traditional musical instrument.
In October 1943, the Jews were rounded up in Rome itself; the cattle trucks drove past St Peter's, the tiny shivering hands of the incarcerated children hanging through the slats, so that the SS officers who had been drafted in could see the sights of the Eternal City.
The frets of a guitar by the one echo the slats of a window shutter by the other.
Despite many efforts to create "3-D without glasses" (notably in the U.S.S.R., where a screen of vertical slats was used for many years), audience members have had to wear one of two types of special glasses to watch 3-D films.
One of the most enjoyable members of the wooden family is the yu, a model of a crouching tiger with a serrated ridge or set of slats along its back that were scratched by a bamboo whisk in a manner recalling the various scratched gourds of Latin American dance bands.
As piercing of the back slats progressed, they began to resemble the sound holes of a violin, and this type of chair came to be known as a fiddle back (a term also applied, until the second half of the 18th century, to another type of shaped chair, the appearance of which was thought to resemble that of a violin).
A cylindrical slit drum with from two to five slits is encountered in western Africa; the Kisi people of Guinea strike not only the slats formed by the multiple slits but the ends of the slit drum as well.
A 20th-century scholarly investigation revealed him as essentially a collector and extremely talented modifier of already existing styles, notably Rococo, which is characteristically used in Chippendale's many designs for mahogany chairs with intricately pierced slats and for elaborately carved case furniture.
