wheel window

American  

noun

1. a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.

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wheel window British  

noun

1. another name for rose window

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Example Sentences

The roof was gone, though a wheel window remained unbroken, high above the absent door.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

This is a pleasing piece of Italian Gothic and, like several of its companions at Assisi, has an elegant wheel window and a number of grotesque little carvings of creatures human and bestial.

From Italian Hours by James, Henry

Further north is a Baptist chapel, with two noticeable pointed towers and a central wheel window.

From Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

A fine wheel window occupies a position above the principal door and between these is a good Gothic screen with figures in five niches flanked by a couple of windows on either side.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

The wheel window of the fa�ade is beautified with exceptionally good tracing.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe