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  • noun Plural form of fenestration.

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Examples

  • The fenestrations in the further float flashed open as the aeronaut tried to right her.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • As he did so pools and islands amidst the darkness about him leapt to vivid light again, the uproar surged louder and the glare of the fifth white star shone through the vast fenestrations of the theatre walls.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • It¡¯s the fetid stench of complacency hanging in the air, the smoothness of the fenestrations on the local Hogi*Yogi (one of the many varieties of sandwich/smoothie shops that dot the landscape like abandoned freezers or stray cats would in a nice, normal, dirty neighborhood) that highlight how much of the space in that area is either badly developed or in the process of being badly developed.

    kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2002

  • To the right lay the outer wall and its splendid arched fenestrations showing the city of Rome slugging out of her kip.

    The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981

  • They paused at the edge of it, staring directly across its length, and there, upon the far shore, just visible, were the shadowy towers and fenestrations of Mistral, the home of Sardonyx.

    beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980

  • Many fenestrations, open spaces like windows. perforated the vertebrae of her neck and tail, thus reducing their weight.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • The papillæ are more numerous at the inner part or towards the attached end; and a circlet of longitudinally disposed folds radiate from the bottom of the follicles, in which a number of small pits or fenestrations are sometimes visible.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • As he did so pools and islands amidst the darkness about him leapt to vivid light again, the uproar surged louder and the glare of the fifth white star shone through the vast fenestrations of the theatre walls.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 1906

  • The fenestrations in the further float flashed open as the aeronaut tried to right her.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 1906

  • SurgiMend PRS incorporates a dense network of fenestrations, as fenestrations have been shown to assist in fluid drainage and to improve vascularization and incorporation, while also providing gradual and directional stretching as needed when used with expanders.

    unknown title 2009

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