dormer : Idioms & Phrases

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dormer window

  • noun the window in a gabled extension built to accommodate a window
  • noun a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window
    dormer.
WordNet
Dor"mer, Dor"mer win"dow noun (Also<
  • Dormer
  • Dormer window
)
Etymology
Literally, the window of a sleeping apartment. F. dormir to sleep. See Dormant, a. & n.
Definitions
  1. (Arch.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
Webster 1913

philip dormer stanhope

  • noun suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773)
    Chesterfield; Fourth Earl of Chesterfield.
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