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lunettes

n. 1 (plural of lunette English) 2 (context plurale tantum English) A particular kind of spectacles / glasses, consisting of two circles lenses connected by a half-circle bridge over the nose.

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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.