Dormer-window

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An upright window built from a sloping roof.

    "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."

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dormant windowdormerlucarneluthern

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"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."

Etymology

See dormer.

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