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Slightly off-topic, but can someone explain the history and use of the word "Shutter" in this context? Obviously it means "shut down"... I see the term fairly

• andyking 15y ago
  When a shop closes down, or even closes for the night, the shutters are pulled down over the windows, hence it is 'shuttered.' I think it's an Americanism. I used the term once in a news story for a (British) radio station I worked for, and it was edited out by management and replaced with (I think) 'closed down.' I hadn't realised it was a foreign term until then!
• Tim-Boss 15y ago
  It's an American colloquialism: shuttered is a form of: shut·ter verb /ˈSHətər/  shuttered, past participle; shuttered, past tense; shuttering, present participle; shutters, 3rd person singular present Close the shutters of (a window or building) - the windows were shuttered against the afternoon heat - barred and shuttered stores Close (a business) - the city was gripped by economic forces that were squeezing its tax base and shuttering its factories