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Wiktionary

  1. n. an outside door with glass panes, serving as a window and a door

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. See under Window.
  2. n. (Arch.) a casement window in two folds, usually reaching to the floor; -- called also French casement.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a French door situated in an exterior wall of a building

Examples

  • “She stood in the French window of the drawing-room and looked across the valley to Nunspardon.”

    Scales of Justice

  • “Fox’s hand was on the knob of the French window when beyond it the beam of Sergeant Oliphant’s torchlight shot across the dark and the man’s face was illuminated.”

    Scales of Justice

  • “Fox had gone to the French window and had made a majestical signal to the sergeant, who now came into the drawing-room.”

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  • “Rose led the way through the French window into the drawing-room, where Alleyn found an out-of-drawing conversation piece established.”

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  • “Sunlight shafted in from the shoved-aside curtains on the French window at the hall’s end, glittering on shards of glass near the broken window and glinting from shell casings littered around a large, dark, and ragged circle staining the carpet.”

    Simon & Schuster: Etched in Bone

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