lunette

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Ant. vol. ii. p. 135 71] According to Faber, the egg was a symbol of the world or megacosm, and also of the ark, or microcosm, as the lunette or crescent was a symbol of the Great Father, the egg and lunette--which was the hieroglyphic of the god Lunus, at Heliopolis--was a symbol of the world proceeding from the Great Father.--_Pagan Idolatry_, vol. i. b. i. ch.

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  1. noun Architecture A small, circular or crescent-shaped opening in a vaulted roof.
  2. noun Architecture A crescent-shaped or semicircular space, usually over a door or window, that may contain another window, a sculpture, or a mural.
  3. noun A fortification that has two projecting faces and two parallel flanks.
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  • The ceramic and glass mosaic reredos and lunette were restored to their original beauty completing the renovation. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • This is how it came to have such a terror for poor Timmons His regiment was undergoing its training on the "firing-line," and his company furnished twelve men daily for the "lunette," a kind of detached bastion about 800 yards in front of the line in the direction of the enemy. —  Bamboo Tales
  • Giovanni Santi may here be seen almost as well as at Cagli; and of Perugino there is one truly magnificent altar-piece--lunette, great centre panel, and predella--dusty in its present condition, but splendidly painted, and happily not yet restored or cleaned. —  New Italian sketches
  • St. Lucy before the Judge Madonna and Saints, Francis receiving Stigmata (lunette) 1526 Visitation, Annunciation (lunette) 1530 Note 1: All the Lottos at Jesi are presently to be transported to the Palazzo della Signoria London.= 699. —  The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition
  • Portrait of Monk, 1526 S. CRISTINA, Altar-piece, Dead Christ (lunette). —  The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition
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  1. French, from Old French lunete, moon-shaped object, diminutive of lune, moon, from Latin lūna; see lune.

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  1. from French lunette, diminutive of lune, the moon: see lunet.
 

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