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MULLIONED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mullioned mean?
• MULLIONED (adjective)
The adjective MULLIONED has 1 sense:
1. of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone
Familiarity information: MULLIONED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone
Context example:
mullioned windows
Similar:
divided (separated into parts or pieces)
Context examples
The window at which I stood was tall and deep, stone-mullioned, and though weatherworn, was still complete; but it was evidently many a day since the case had been there.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect; a stone tablet over the door bore this inscription:—Lowood Institution.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The room was very spacious, lighted on one side by three arched and mullioned windows, while opposite was a huge fireplace in which a pile of faggots was blazing merrily.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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