Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a window.

Etymologies

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window +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Elsewhere, a glazed bookcase with shelves fixed in place behind the horizontal glazing bars of the doors reveals Stickley controlling his design even after it is in private hands: Adjustable shelves, if moved from those positions, would interfere visually with the clean windowlike pattern.

    Four-Square Reformer Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010

  • A round windowlike opening in the base of one of the rooms had been demonstrated to have significant celestial alignments, including a view of the moon at its northern extreme and the sun at sunrise on the summer solstice.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

  • A round windowlike opening in the base of one of the rooms had been demonstrated to have significant celestial alignments, including a view of the moon at its northern extreme and the sun at sunrise on the summer solstice.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

  • The students took turns looking in through the windowlike openings, while the present Dr. Blessamy delivered a rambling fifteen-minute talk.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • The students took turns looking in through the windowlike openings, while the present Dr. Blessamy delivered a rambling fifteen-minute talk.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • He had very nice spectral features, all in the right place—straight lines making up his nose and his jaw, his eyes big and windowlike.

    May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

  • He had very nice spectral features, all in the right place—straight lines making up his nose and his jaw, his eyes big and windowlike.

    May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

  • He had very nice spectral features, all in the right place—straight lines making up his nose and his jaw, his eyes big and windowlike.

    May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

  • He had very nice spectral features, all in the right place—straight lines making up his nose and his jaw, his eyes big and windowlike.

    May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

  • He had very nice spectral features, all in the right place—straight lines making up his nose and his jaw, his eyes big and windowlike.

    May Bird, Warrior Princess Jodi Lynn Anderson 2007

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