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The parlour window was an ordinary sash-window, with outside shutters; the kitchen window a small casement, protected by a fixed net-work of strong wire.

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  1. noun An opening constructed in a wall or roof that functions to admit light or air to an enclosure and is often framed and spanned with glass mounted to permit opening and closing.
  2. noun A framework enclosing a pane of glass for such an opening; a sash.
  3. noun A pane of glass or similar material enclosed in such a framework.

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door ·  room ·  light ·  roof ·  box ·  screen ·  front ·  doorway ·  bed ·  build ·  stone ·  gate

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window:   windows

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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse vindauga : vindr, air, wind; see wē- in Indo-European roots + auga, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English windowe; from Middle English windowe, wyndowe, windoge, windohe (the orig. guttural showing in the Scots windak, windock, winnock), from Icelandic vindauga (= Norwegian vindauga = Danish vindue for *vindöje, the form vindue being prob. from Icelandic), window, literally ‘windeye,’ from vindr, wind, + auga, eye: see wind and eye, n. The Anglo-Saxon words were eágdura, ‘eyedoor,’ and eágthyrl, ‘eyethirl,’ i. e. ‘eyehole.’ The G. word for window is fenster = Swedish fönster, from the L.
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