bay window
an alcove of a room, projecting from an outside wall and having its own windows, especially one having its own foundations.: Compare bow window, oriel.
Informal. a large, protruding belly; paunch.
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How to use bay window in a sentence
Almost opposite is the magnificent porch and bay-window leading into the great hall.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyRight near the bay window, in the thick lilac tree, Marmaduke spied Red Robin's nest.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonAt the back of the stage is a deep bay window from which one may have a view up and down the street.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousAt the left of the doorway, a bay window, also heavily curtained, is set into the diagonal wall.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousSo said Mr. Brandon to me, as we sat in the bay-window at Crabb Cot, at which place we were staying.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series | Mrs. Henry Wood
British Dictionary definitions for bay window
a window projecting from the wall of a building and forming an alcove of a room: Sometimes shortened to: bay See also bow window, oriel window
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