wheel window
a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
- Also called Catherine wheel, marigold window.
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How to use wheel window in a sentence
It is divided into three equal portions each of which is surmounted by a gable containing what was at one time a wheel window.
Cathedral Cities of Italy | William Wiehe CollinsThe wheel window of the faade is beautified with exceptionally good tracing.
Cathedral Cities of Italy | William Wiehe CollinsThe church of S. Agostino, difficult to find in the slums, has a remarkable faade with a beautiful wheel window.
Cathedral Cities of Italy | William Wiehe CollinsFurther north is a Baptist chapel, with two noticeable pointed towers and a central wheel window.
Holborn and Bloomsbury | Sir Walter BesantAbove the central door is usually seen, in the later Lombard churches, a S. Catherine's-wheel window.
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) | John Ruskin
British Dictionary definitions for wheel window
another name for rose window
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