Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An outer upper light in a perpendicular window, next to the springing of the arch: probably a corruption of angle-light, as these lights are triangular in shape, and are, moreover, in one sense, at the angles of the window. See cut under batement-light.

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  • "Candlelight, angel-light/Firelight and star glow/Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn/Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo!

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