Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A glazed window in which the glass is set in a sash, and not in the wall; hence, a window that can be opened.

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Examples

  • Then I looked up and I viddied that there was a sash-window above the front door and that it would be a lot more skorry to just do the old pletcho climb and get in that way.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • He doesn't greatly care for it, but then he didn't greatly care for his career at the hated BBC, which foundered because of his propensity for playing too much mournful music on Radio 3, nor for his subsequent makeshift jobs as a removal man, shoe salesman or sash-window replacer.

    The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson 2010

  • In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash-window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their height.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The window on the landing-place, which was a sash-window, was open.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • A notably clean Englishwoman keeps this small house, and my bedroom is sweetened with lavender, has a clean sash-window, and the walls are, moreover, adorned with ballads of Fair Rosamond and Cruel Barbara Allan.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, facing the East on the back court-yard of the house.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • She sighed as she looked up at the sash-window, whence one day she had sent her first kiss to him who now shed as much sorrow as glory on her life.

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

  • She sighed as she looked up at the sash-window, whence one day she had sent her first kiss to him who now shed as much sorrow as glory on her life.

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

  • Through the sash-window a patch of dark sky was seen between the pointed roofs.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • The whole sash-window pane was out, so I climbed in and went along the passage.

    Here Lies Gloria Mundy Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1982

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