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sash windows

n. (sash window English)

Usage examples of "sash windows".

The sash windows were narrow and glazed with small diamond panes, another sign that the house had been built in a previous century before glassmakers had learned to roll larger plates.

Places in this house that I could once negotiate with ease have become treacherous: the sash windows are poised like traps, ready to fall on my hands, the stepstool threatens to collapse, the top shelves of the cupboards are booby-trapped with precarious glassware.

Where can you run to on a speeding interzonal train, rendered transparent to left and right by sash windows, mostly stuck, if not to the john.

An internal stairway led up to the top floor, but Nicol led Rebus past it and into the living room, fully thirty-five feet long and twelve high, and with double sash windows giving uninterrupted views across Dean Valley and the Water of Leith.

As he looks out over the jumble of gently-sloping slate gables, unpretentious Regency sash windows and clustered chimney pots of weathered clay, the excitement of his teaching days is rekindled.

Portable television aerials protrude from the tops of sash windows.

One upstairs ward, once sunny with sash windows from the chair rail to the fifteen-foot ceiling, now as muted and murky as any greenhouse from the encroachment of trees, was chock-full, wall-to-wall with rotting cardboard filing cabinets.

The interior was a warren of interconnecting rooms and passages, with cubbyholes and stairways in unexpected places, old-fashioned sash windows, and lots of wood carving and paneling.

The road curved, and the White Caps Hotel was revealed, a detached stone house in a row of similar houses, with heavy sash windows facing out over the bay.

The curtains were drawn back, and the sash windows were wide open at the bottom.