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lancet window
noun
, Architecture.
- a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
lancet window
noun
- a narrow window having a lancet arch Sometimes shortened tolancet
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lancet window1
First recorded in 1775–85
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Example Sentences
It was afterwards placed across the nave, near the west end, under the organ which blocked up the great triple lancet window.
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Beyond the ends of the choir aisles on either side of the presbytery is a lancet window.
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She could not see his features clearly, since the sun, pouring in through a tall lancet window behind him, dazzled her eyes.
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Teampul-Ree has two round-headed lights and a lancet window, twelfth century work.
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The North Side of the nave corresponds with the south, each bay containing a lancet window in the clerestory.
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