lancet window

A tall, narrow window set in a lancet arch.

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lancet window

(Architecture) a narrow window having a lancet arch. Sometimes shortened to: lancet

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lan′cet win′dow

a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.

[1775–85]

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Noun

lancet window - a narrow window having a lancet arch and without tracery

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

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lancet window

n (Archit) → Spitzbogenfenster nt

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Nevertheless, timid and inexperienced at the start, it sweeps out, grows larger, restrains itself, and dares no longer dart upwards in spires and lancet windows, as it did later on, in so many marvellous cathedrals.

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The road to Farringdon ran along one side of it, and the brook by the side of the road; and above the brook was another large, gentle, sloping pasture-land, with a footpath running down it from the churchyard; and the old church, the originator of all the mirth, towered up with its gray walls and lancet windows, overlooking and sanctioning the whole, though its own share therein had been forgotten.

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"Under the gable facing Much Park Street is a small rectangular lancet window, and below it you can see holes in the wall that once supported timber roof beams.

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A small lancet window, probably 12th century, faces north.

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A lovely lancet window has beautiful views onto the garden and there are original beams with two carved stone corbels.

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The three-section stained glass lancet window is to be built into the abbey's south transept above the famous internal choir staircase, and will be put in place tomorrow and on Thursday.

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Now the result of that legacy - a new three-section stained glass lancet window to be built into the abbey's south transept above the famous internal choir staircase - will be put in place tomorrow and on Thursday.

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The unusual detached four-bedroom property is believed to date from the early 1900s and retains a wealth of original features including sash windows and a lancet window.

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