Crossword clues for dormer
dormer
- Type of window
- Upstairs window
- Roof window
- A gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window
- Kind of window
- Window in an attic
- Attic window, sometimes
- Projecting window
- Gabled extension built out from a sloping roof
- Carter at last accessing vault, chamber finally opening
- Performer embracing jolly types seen in window
- Window type
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dormant \Dor"mant\, n. [See Dormant,
] (Arch.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or `` sleep.''
--Arch. PuSo
-- Called also dormant tree, dorman tree, dormond, and dormer.
--Halliwell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, originally "window of a sleeping room," from Middle French dormeor "sleeping room," from dormir "to sleep" (see dormant).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) a room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof 2 dormer-window
WordNet
n. a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window [syn: dormer window]
Wikipedia
A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.
Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable space in a loft and to create window openings in a roof plane. The term "dormer" is commonly used to refer to a "dormer window" although a dormer doesn't necessarily have to contain a window. A dormer is often one of the primary elements of a loft conversion. As a prominent element of many buildings, different types of dormer have evolved to complement different styles of architecture. When the structure appears on the spires of churches and cathedrals, it is usually referred to as a lucarne.
Dormer or Dörmer is a surname, and may refer to:
- Albert Dormer (1925-2014), English bridge player
- Daisy Dormer (1883–1947), English music hall singer born in Portsmouth
- Francis Dormer (1854–1928), South African journalist and newspaper editor
- Heinz Dörmer (1912–2001), German man who was imprisoned by the Nazis for homosexuality under Paragraph 175
- Michael Dormer (born 1935 in Hollywood, California, U.S.), American fine artist, writer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and creator of the famed 1960s TV show Shrimpenstein
- Sir Michael Dormer (d.1545), Lord Mayor of London in 1541
- Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (1610-1643), English peer
- Natalie Dormer, actress (born 11 February 1982), English actress
- Sir William Dormer (1503 – 17 May 1575)
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?