Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A high and narrow window, terminating in an arch acutely pointed or formed of curves of long radius (the center falling outside of the arch), and resembling a lancet in shape.
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Jack Spraggon coming after all? 'added he, drawing out a telescope and opening a lancet-window.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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a step or two; of odd nooks and sombre little corridors, and tiny apartments squeezed aside into corners, and lighted either from the corridor or by a lancet-window or a loophole.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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