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Dormer window

noun

The window in a gabled extension built to accommodate a window.

A gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window. Synonym: dormer.

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"Dormer window" Quotes from Famous Books

... Matthew who built the house; and thrust away, neglected and despised, in an old room upstairs, were books and treasures of his that my mother let me rout among during a spell of wintry wet. Sitting under a dormer window on a shelf above great stores of tea and spices, I became familiar with much of Hogarth in a big portfolio, with Raphael, there was a great book of engravings from the stanzas of Raphael in the Vatican—and with most of the capitals of Europe as they had looked about 1780, by means of several ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... our of the dormer window in the high roof watching the Spanish soldiers in the batteries working their guns, when, happening to look round, they saw a crossbow protruded from a window of the warehouse to their right, and a moment afterwards the sharp twang of the bow was heard. There was ...

— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty

Words linked to "Dormer window" : dormer, window, oxeye