angel light

American  

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.

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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 • Jun. 23, 2025

He had just completed the lines:— And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John

"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 Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore

And yet a spirit still and bright With something of an angel light.

From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Kingsley, Charles

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 Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by Clement, J. (Jesse)