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dormerWindow set vertically in a structure that projects from a sloping roof. It often illuminates a bedroom. In the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods, elaborate masonry dormers were designed. Dormers were used along with the mansard roof to defy a Parisian law limiting buildings to six stories; the seventh story was called a garret (or attic) and was made habitable by the dormer. See also gable. dormer a construction with a gable roof and a window at its outer end that projects from a sloping roof How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 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. Two broad dormer windows looked out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a man's eye might reach. 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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