lucarne

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It is useless to dub a Frenchman unreal and theatrical when he gaily carries his unreality and his perception of the dramatic to the lucarne of the guillotine and meets imperturbably the most real thing on earth, Death.

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  • It is useless to dub a Frenchman unreal and theatrical when he gaily carries his unreality and his perception of the dramatic to the lucarne of the guillotine and meets imperturbably the most real thing on earth, Death. —  The Last Hope
  • From the cave of my ignorance, amid the fogs of my dulness, and pestilential fumes of my political heresies, I look up to thee, as doth a toad through the iron-barred lucarne of a pestiferous dungeon, to the cloudless glory of —  The Letters of Robert Burns
  • It is useless to dub a Frenchman unreal and theatrical when he gaily carries his unreality and his perception of the dramatic to the lucarne of the guillotine and meets imperturbably the most real thing on earth, —  The Last Hope
  • La lucarne. —  U.S. Copyright Renewals 1950 - 1977
 

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  1. French, from Old French, alteration (influenced by luiserne, light) of Old Provençal lucana, possibly of Germanic origin .

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  1. from P. lucarne, Old French lucarne, a roof-window (= Gothic (Moesogothic) lukarn, a light, lamp), from Latin lucerna, a lamp: see lucern.
 

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/ljuˈkɑrn/
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