angel light

noun

Architecture.

1. (in an English Perpendicular window) a compartment, approximately triangular, formed by the arch of the window, an arch of a lower tier of tracery, and a mullion of an upper tier of tracery.

Example Sentences

The heartbreaking poem began: "The world grew quiet as you arrived, So loved, so longed for, yet not alive./Our precious boy, our angel light, Born with wings, took silent flight."

From BBC

A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet though the angel light that play'd Around her face, pierced not the shade That veil'd his eyeballs dim,— Yet to his ear her murmurs stole, And, with a faultering voice, he said That he felt them sink into his soul Like the blessed Virgin's hymn!

From Project Gutenberg

We have before us the ideal—the type which reconciles all the conditions of human life, physical and moral—the "perfect woman," who is also the fitting vehicle of the angel light.

From Project Gutenberg

"A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright, With something of an angel light."

From Project Gutenberg