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skylight
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Skylights are light transmitting fenestration (elements filling building envelope openings) forming all, or a portion of, the roof of a building's space for daylighting purposes.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Far above there was a skylight of stained glass, its reds and yellows on fire with sunlight. ▪ Half-dressed and short of breath, they lay side by side resentful of one another and the skylight above them. ▪ I kept going up and ...
Usage examples of skylight.
The drawling voice which answered filled the lobby, ascended to the green skylight far above, moved inexorably outward from the place of utterance to the balcony edges, thrust through the banisters to flow into the aisles of books, soaking each volume in turn so that the very bindings became redolent with that sound, not echoing but vibrating nonetheless in a reverberating hum larger than the building itself, a seeking pressure which left no corner unexplored.
Money saved, pennies pinched--instead of boarding over the old skylights above the dance floor, the carpenters simply enclosed them in closets, behind what were supposed to be closed and locked and bolted doors.
Morgue, with half a hundred gazing wistfully at them, and their fixed eyes glaring fishily at the skylight, as if it were the surface of the river and they were at rest below.
She pointed at the ancient jinker platform up between the gables and skylights on the roof.
The pavement is of fine oolite, or skylight, or some other stone of that geologic period, and is laid almost flat on the ground, in places.
Hiroko makes sure that the old lady is tucked up in bed with Tiddles the cat and Radio 4 and then she sneaks me up the stairs to a converted loft where a shaft of moonlight pours through the skylight and onto her single bed.
On its flat roof the forms of a dozen or more glazed skylights upreared themselves jauntily.
A giant daggerwing roared past, intent on some vital business, and Washen watched it vanish into the gloom, then reappear, tiny with the distance, its bluish carapace shining in a patch of sudden skylight.
Each one-room guesthouse has a wood-burning fireplace, homey furnishings, king-size bed with down comforter, and an enormous bathroom with a skylight and a deep, two-person Jacuzzi tub.
Under the partial shelter of an overtowering tree, he found a skylight set in a metal frame.
She looked up at the fourth floor and noticed that one of the big panes in the skylight had been broken.
The tiny skylight and a paraffin lamp hanging by a chain in the center of the mom afforded the only illumination.
The Bond Street man stripped away all the velvet and morocco, plucked up the Turkey carpet, draped the scuttle-ports with pale yellow cretonne garnished with orange pompons, subdued the glare of the skylight by a blind of oriental silk, covered the divans with Persian saddlebags, the floor with a delicate Indian matting, and furnished the saloon with all that was most feminine in the way of bamboo chairs and tea-tables, Japanese screens and fans of gorgeous colouring.
The skylight was of unfrosted glass, but was so covered with dust that it would be impossible for anyone looking up from below to detect that he was overlooked.
Nine skylights lit the place, through which patchy blue sky showed above unthawed snow.