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fanlight
1. a semicircular window over a door or window, often having sash bars like the ribs of a fan
2. a small rectangular window over a door
fanlight [′fan·līt]
(architecture)
A segmented semicircular window over a door or window.
fanlight
fanlight
1. A semicircular or semielliptical window over the opening of a door; commonly with radiating rods or bars suggestive of an open fan.
2. Any window occupying a similar position.
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The night had come; the fanlight over the door shone bright; the two windows of the dining-room where the cloth was being laid, and the three windows of the drawing-room where Maria would be waiting dinner, glowed softlier through yellow blinds.
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Above the other door, which opened on to the landing, there hung a fanlight which could be drawn by a cord when some ventilation became absolutely necessary.
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The pale moonlight streamed through a shattered fanlight over the door; the air was unwholesome and chilly, like that of a vault.
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