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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. 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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A small slot of operable, transom windows in that facade allow northern light and air to enter during moderate spring and fall seasons. To increase the brightness of the room, there is a transom window above the door, as well as a south-facing window that picks up ocean breezes (unfortunately, this is the one that overlooks a '60s stucco apartment building). Its director, Stephen Frears, his great cinematographer, Philippe Rousselot, and their designers and technicians have created a late Victorian London (impersonated by Edinburgh) worthy of Sickert and Whistler, a world of blue air and gray fog against which the red paint on a transom window sings out like a cry of agony. |
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