Crossword clues for bow window
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bay window \Bay" win"dow\
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(Arch.) A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.
Syn: bay window, bow window, bow-window.
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a protruding abdomen. [informal]
Syn: belly, paunch, pot, potbelly, corporation, tummy.
Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) A curved, bow-shaped window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building, similar to a bay window.
WordNet
n. a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house [syn: bay window]
Wikipedia
A bow window or compass window is a curved bay window. Bow windows are designed to create space by projecting beyond the exterior wall of a building, and to provide a wider view of the garden or street outside and typically combine four or more casement windows, which join together to form an arch.
Bow windows first appeared in the eighteenth century in the United Kingdom, (and in the Federal period in the United States).
White's Club, in St. James's Street, London features a famous bow window.
Usage examples of "bow window".
In takes you easL At first the Grad held the bow window pointed straight down.
Symbols and numbers glowed in the bow window and in the panel below it, but the pilot touched only the panel, and only the blue.
They sat at a round table in a bow window that protruded from the back of the inn high above the water, yet so close to it that they had tossed the oyster-shells back into their native element with no more than a flick of the wrist: and from the unloading tartan a hundred and fifty feet below them there arose the mingled scents of Stockholm tar, cordage, sail-cloth and Chian turpentine.
The older generation of dandies who sat in Olympian aloofness in the Bow window at White’.