Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exhibiting intersecting lines or little crossings like those of the sashes of a window.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having little
crossings oropenings like thesashes of awindow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fact that there is so much to learn has, in a way, re-awakened my zest for IT, after many, looooonng years using certain other .... let's just say 'windowy' Operating Systems
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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Not long after moving in our then 14 yr old was sitting at her computer in our windowy sun room, and a big fat raccoon put his big nose right up to her window and stared in.
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Trollope had his fling at the square brick buildings; but it was a fling that they richly deserved, for they are in very deed as ugly as it is possible to conceive, -- angular, formal, stiff, windowy, bricky, -- and the farther in you go, the worse it grows.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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They drove along under the elms which here stood somewhat at random about the wide, grassless street, between the high, windowy bulks of the shoe shops and hat shops.
Annie Kilburn : a Novel William Dean Howells 1878
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The buildings increased in size and number; the single line of the railroad was multiplied into four, and in the region of the tracks several large, ugly, windowy wooden bulks grew up for shoe shops; a stocking factory followed; yet this business activity did not warp the old village from its picturesqueness or quiet.
Annie Kilburn : a Novel William Dean Howells 1878
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