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lunette
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lunette \Lu*nette"\, n. [F., dim. of lune moon, L. luna. See Lune a crescent.] (Fort.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion . (Far.) A half horseshoe, which lacks the sponge. A kind of watch ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The lunette spatial region in the upper portion of stelas, became common for steles as a prelude to a stele's topic. Its major use was from ancient Egypt in all the various categories of steles: funerary, Victory Steles, autobiographical, temple, votive, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. temporary fortification like a detached bastion oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault [syn: fenestella ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "semi-circular horseshoe," from Middle French lunette (13c.), literally "little moon," diminutive of lune "moon," from Latin luna (see luna ). Later applied to a wide range of objects and ornamentations resembling a crescent moon.
Usage examples of lunette.
Lalouette, ayant mis le coton dans leurs oreilles et les lunettes bleues sur le nez, attendaient.
They leaned him over the trestle and opened wide the fitted form of the lunette into which the brank just fit.
A la tombee du jour, il grimpait les degres, ayant sous chaque bras une boite longue et noire, qui renfermait, assurement, les lunettes et les mineraux.
A smaller fort, mounting five guns, was built at the northwest corner, and at the northeast and southeast corners were small lunettes, with a couple of howitzers each.
Then it was refurbished and rebuilt, with thick stone walls that met at the corners of rooms in graceful arches called lunettes, with floors of brick laid out in herringbone patterns, with intricate wooden ceilings and wide windows that were shuttered, barred, and set so low they seemed to kneel into the street.
Abruptly, with a lightning velocity, these broadenings expanded into immense lunettes, two tremendous curving and crablike claws.
Sticking out of a crescent-shaped sand ridge of a type known as a lunette were some human bones.