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French windows

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French windows
pl n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) (sometimes singular) Brit a pair of casement windows extending to floor level and opening onto a balcony, garden, etc. US and Canadian name French doors
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French windows French doors (esp Am) npl → portafinestra
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I was at home at that hour and writing in my study; and although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up (for I loved in those days to look up at the night sky), I saw nothing of it.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
But the cream- coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the private hotels of the Parisian aristocracy) was there as a visible proof of her moral courage; and she throned in it, among pre-Revolutionary furniture and souvenirs of the Tuileries of Louis Napoleon (where she had shone in her middle age), as placidly as if there were nothing peculiar in living above Thirty-fourth Street, or in having French windows that opened like doors instead of sashes that pushed up.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
As such, he found the atmosphere of the little room choking him, he drew open the French windows of his little study and strode out into the perfumed and sunlit morning.
A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
 
 
 
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