skylight

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Directly beneath the skylight was a bed, and on the bed a fat Austrian infantry captain.

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  1. noun An overhead window, as in a roof, admitting daylight.
  2. noun Light from the sky.

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  • Luckily our first swim-through, aptly named the skylight room, was bright and spacious enough to accommodate even the most hard core claustrophobic. —  The Lost Girls
  • The large, prismatic skylight is at the southeast corner of the building, the culmination of a four-story, high-tech staircase. —  New York Sun - All Articles
  • Another building with a skylight is a five-story townhouse at 14 E. 78th St. designed by Charles Graham & Sons in 1887 and remodeled in 1917 by Harry Allen Jacobs. —  New York Sun - All Articles
  • And when they're illuminated by skylight, they're blue .... —  Esquire.com Article Feed
  • A boy who fell 30ft through a skylight was fighting for life yesterday. —  Mirror.co.uk - News
 

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/ˈskaɪlaɪt/
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