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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

... she lived. She lay in a neat little curtained bed, in a room with a sloping roof on both sides, covered, not with tiles or slates, but with warm thatch, thick and sound. Ivy was creeping through the chinks of the ill-fitting window-frame; but through the little dormer window itself the sun shone freely, and made shadows of shivering ivy-leaves upon the deal floor. It was a very humble room, and Alice had been used to much better furniture—but neither to room nor furniture so clean. ...

— There & Back • George MacDonald

... trees are covered with fillets of wood. On top the trees are fastened into a frame of rough timber by wooden pins. The interior of the building is exceedingly dark, for there are no windows in the wooden walls, and the chief light comes from the porch and a dormer window. This window in the roof, however, was not in the original design, for the rude structure was only designed as a temporary resting-place for the body of St. Edmund the Martyr. It was in A.D. 1010 that the saint's ...

— What to See in England • Gordon Home

... son of Sir 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, ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... out from the wall to the left of the dormer window, and the latter end of Richards protruding from a two-foot-square ...

— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling

... lantern with them. There was still sufficient light to show Ronald that the house stood at a distance of some fourteen feet from the wall. The roof sloped too steeply for him to maintain his holding upon it; but halfway along the house was a dormer window about three feet above the gutter. It was unglazed, and doubtless gave light to a ...

— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty

... one. The air was admitted by a special system of ventilation, for the dormer window was hermetically closed by a wooden ...

— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc

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