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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A dormer window.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dormer- or roof-window; also, a light or small window in a spire.

Wiktionary

  1. n. architecture A dormer-window.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Arch.) A dormer window.

Etymologies

  1. From French lucarne, from Germanic. See below. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, alteration (influenced by luiserne, light) of Old Provençal lucana, possibly of Germanic origin . (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “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

  • “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

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