dormer-window
See also: dormer window
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
See dormer.
Noun
dormer-window (plural dormer-windows)
- An upright window built from a sloping roof.
- Synonyms: dormant window, dormer, lucarne, luthern
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
- He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
Translations
upright window in a roof
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