bow window
noun
a rounded bay window.
bow-windowed
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a word derived from
bow window.
Example Sentences
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Even there she could not stay long, but returned to the bow-windowed room, and paced it hurriedly to and fro.
From The Eichhofs A Romance by Moritz von Reichenbach
Certain portions of old Weymouth are very picturesque, with steep streets and comfortable old bow-windowed lodging-houses patronized almost exclusively by the better class of seafarer; merchant captains, pilots and the like.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes
Count Michael, who occupied the rooms that had been his cousin's, was sitting in the bow-windowed apartment, when he was told that Wolfram the forester had arrived in obedience to his desire.
From Saint Michael A Romance by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
Is it that evening or another that they were all assembled in the little bow-windowed drawing-room in Old Street listening to one of Rhoda's interminable 'pieces' that she learnt at her French school?
From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray
She basked in sunshine as she rattled about Melbourne streets and suburbs in Beatrice's little basket-carriage, and as she sat in Beatrice's bow-windowed drawing-room, gossiping over afternoon tea.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge
