Definitions

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  • adjective Having a skylight.

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  • adjective Furnished with one or more skylights

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skylight +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • A subtle, stripped-down version of wall moldings and the skylighted cove and barrel-vaulted ceilings common in the past have been reintroduced in the American Wing galleries to provide the natural light and modified scale best suited to the size and spirit of 18th- and 19th-century paintings.

    The New World Reborn Ada Louise Huxtable 2012

  • Among some of the fresher faces on the scene are the skylighted Greenhouse (1200 16th St. NW) at the Jefferson Hotel; the posh J&G Steakhouse (515 15th St. NW) in the W Hotel; the Greek-themed Kellari Taverna (1700 K St. NW) and Ris (2275 L St. NW), the modern American dining room of veteran D.C. chef Ris Lacoste.

    Ask Tom: Saturday lunch downtown 2010

  • They range from 11 inches by 15 inches to 12 feet by 17 feet, most of them falling at the small end of that range and looking a bit lost in the high, wide white spaces of SFMOMA's skylighted top floor.

    Can My Colleagues Be Serious? David Littlejohn 2010

  • They range from 11 inches by 15 inches to 12 feet by 17 feet, most of them falling at the small end of that range and looking a bit lost in the high, wide white spaces of SFMOMA's skylighted top floor.

    Can My Colleagues Be Serious? David Littlejohn 2010

  • Now the skylighted forecourt is filled with plainclothesmen.

    Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

  • But if Mr. di Suvero's work must be seen in Manhattan, the swank, skylighted, cathedralesque space of the Paula Cooper Gallery is as good as it gets.

    His Bark Is Worse Than His Bite 2010

  • The domed skylighted room was darkened, as twilight stained the world outside in a deep blue.

    The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

  • Authors, professors, financiers, and entrepreneurs took over the French Institute's skylighted penthouse and earnestly discussed how embracing "digital culture"—from deploying videogame-style rewards to encouraging kids to develop online reputations—could completely transform education.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • Authors, professors, financiers, and entrepreneurs took over the French Institute's skylighted penthouse and earnestly discussed how embracing "digital culture"—from deploying videogame-style rewards to encouraging kids to develop online reputations—could completely transform education.

    Cool Reform Kenneth Libby 2009

  • We ate in the air-conditioned, skylighted dining room, crammed between a very Gap family and a couple overloaded with Bloomingdale's shopping bags.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

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