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ROSE WINDOW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rose window mean?
• ROSE WINDOW (noun)
The noun ROSE WINDOW has 1 sense:
1. circular window filled with tracery
Familiarity information: ROSE WINDOW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Circular window filled with tracery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
rose window; rosette
Hypernyms ("rose window" is a kind of...):
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)
Context examples
See this rose window, which is from the model of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Vendome, and this other of the 'Finding of the Grail,' which is for the apse of the Abbey church.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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