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lancet window

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lancet window
a narrow window having a lancet arch

lancet window [′lan·sət ‚win·dō]
(architecture)
A narrow window with a sharply pointed top.

lancet, lancet window
lancet
1. A narrow window with a sharp pointed arch typical of English Gothic architecture from ca. 1150 to ca. 1250.
2. One light shaped like a lancet window.

lancet window
A narrow window having the shape of a lancet arch.


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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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