Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dormer window.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dormer- or roof-window; also, a light or small window in a spire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A dormer window.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A
dormer-window .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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,
The Last Hope Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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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 Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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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 Robert Burns 1777
super-kawy commented on the word lucarne
A dormer window.
September 22, 2009