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Sloping-roof window
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dormer
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Word definitions for dormer in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) a room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof 2 dormer-window
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, originally "window of a sleeping room," from Middle French dormeor "sleeping room," from dormir "to sleep" (see dormant ).
Usage examples of dormer.
The atelier proved to be a thoroughly charming, if dusty, room with dormer windows cut into either side of a high peaked ceiling.
Windows rose in layers, dripping filagree crowns and gingerbread balconies, peeking out from dormers, or under gables.
At its rear was a house with broken gablets and round dormers stuck deep into the thatch.
There were dormer windows of real glass in gablets on all four sides so he could scry in any direction without material hindrance.
Sitting with his back against a dormer and his booted feet braced on the red hemicylindrical roofing tiles, Stillhawk furrowed his brow, his equivalent of an angry outburst.
He met Marler coming out of the entrance to The Ship, a brick-built edifice four storeys high, including elegant dormer windows in the roof.
Recovered, he took up his spontoon, which he had placed in the gutter, and, assisted by it, he climbed back to the dormer.
Rose reluctantly took a lamp from a small table in the library and led Emma up three flights of stairs to the top floor and into a tiny attic room, the ceiling of which sloped to a small uncurtained dormer window overlooking the back of the house.
Strange children rambled beneath the little dormer windows of the Acadian cottages, and the voices of the boys at play in the apple orchards shouted in an alien tongue.
The Bowditch attic was paneled and well lighted by dormer windows, and smelled of cedar.
Asha took the little featherbed that had been crammed onto the window seat in the dormer at the narrow end.
Pacceli cast a single disparaging look over his shoulder as he strode from the small Kitman dormer, and she could have cried as she heard his voice reporting his readiness.
The house itself is of white-painted frame and shiplap construction, three stories tall, with dormers, a veranda and an Italian slate roof.
It had the same wraparound porch as the others, the same gaslights, the same dormers and eaves.
But then why, peeking out the dormer window, did I see, on the morning after our second night in the attic, a tank rolling by our front lawn?