dor·mer

(dôr′mər)

1. A small roofed structure projecting outward on a larger sloping roof.

2. A window set in such a structure.

[Obsolete French dormeor, sleeping room, from dormir, to sleep; see dormant.]

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dormer

(ˈdɔːmə)

(Architecture) a construction with a gable roof and a window at its outer end that projects from a sloping roof. Also called: dormer window

[C16: from Old French dormoir, from Latin dormītōrium dormitory]

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dor•mer

(ˈdɔr mər)

n.

1. Also called dor′mer win′dow. a vertical window in a projection built out from a sloping roof.

2. the entire projecting structure.

[1585–95; < Middle French dormoir dormitory]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

dormer - a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window

dormer window

window - a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air

Translations

abbaino

слуховое окно

dormer

[ˈdɔːməʳ] N (also dormer window) → buhardilla f, lucerna f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dormer

[ˈdɔː^rmə^r] n (also dormer window) → lucarne f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dormer (window)

n → Mansardenfenster nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dormer

[ˈdɔːməʳ] n (also dormer window) → abbaino

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"Dormer, for instance," said Bobby; "I think he comes under the head of fool-men.

Dormer isn't a fool yet, but he's a dashed dirty soldier, and his room corporal makes fun of his socks before kit-inspection.

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Two broad dormer windows looked out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a man's eye might reach.

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There were two windows in it; the dormer one looked out on the lower harbor and the sand-bar and the Four Winds light.

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There were no drapery curtains at the dormer windows, no pictures on the wall.

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It begins at the water's edge, with a fringe of hotels, and scrambles up and spreads itself over two or three sharp hills in a crowded, disorderly, but picturesque way, offering to the eye a heaped-up confusion of red roofs, quaint gables, dormer windows, toothpick steeples, with here and there a bit of ancient embattled wall bending itself over the ridges, worm-fashion, and here and there an old square tower of heavy masonry.

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The garret, built to be a depository for firewood and the like, was dim and dark: for, the window of dormer shape, was in truth a door in the roof, with a little crane over it for the hoisting up of stores from the street: unglazed, and closing up the middle in two pieces, like any other door of French construction.

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Thousands of good, calm, bourgeois faces thronged the windows, the doors, the dormer windows, the roofs, gazing at the palace, gazing at the populace, and asking nothing more; for many Parisians content themselves with the spectacle of the spectators, and a wall behind which something is going on becomes at once, for us, a very curious thing indeed.

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The doctor's house, on the side facing the garden, consists of a ground floor and a single story, with a row of five windows in each, dormer windows also project from the tiled mansard-roof.

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"No, Bunny, I regret to say I came in through the dormer window.

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Then there was the little business of the Dormer house-boat at Henley last year.

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Part of her body and life it ever seemed to be; the slope of its dormers, the finish of its gables, the broken courses of brick which topped the chimney, all had something in common with her personal character.

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