windowpane

[win-doh-peyn]

noun

1. a plate of glass for filling a window sash within the frame.

2. a flounder, Scophthalmus aquosus, occurring along the Atlantic coast of North America, characterized by the thinness and translucency of its body.

adjective

1. designating or having a large, regular design of intersecting lines resembling a series of windowpanes.

   a windowpane plaid sweater.

windowpane

/ ˈwɪndəʊˌpeɪn /

noun

1. a sheet of glass in a window

Word History and Origins

Origin of windowpane¹

First recorded in 1810–20; window + pane

Example Sentences

One could read Crooker’s dismay at the American robin’s thumps and thunks against her windowpane as a rhyme for the name of a certain infamous conman turned populist demagogue.

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She screeches, spills a river of curses onto them and sprints off, running her way out of one shoe while hanging on to the garden gnome she used to smash a windowpane.

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There is a simple tattoo of a windowpane on the middle finger of Eva Victor’s right hand.

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Lying in bed at night, I would hear the thump of the neighborhood cats landing on the roof, their shadows on the fence passing my illuminated windowpane.

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Bozell used a metal object to shatter the windowpane of the Senate Wing Door.

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