bull's-eye window
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bull's-eye window
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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The light came through a bull's-eye window situated nine or ten feet up from the floor; the furniture consisted of a bale of straw and a bathtub.
From The Mysterious Sketch by Erckmann-Chatrian
The one on the left was closed, the one on the right looked down on the stairs through a shining bull's-eye window.
From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe
As he spoke they all became aware of a solid black mass looming in front of the bull's-eye window.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
Daylight came - pale and hesitant at first, it lit the bull's-eye window with its glimmers and the criss-crossed bars,…then it burst out upon the far wall.
From The Mysterious Sketch by Erckmann-Chatrian
One Saturday, a farmer's wife, perched on a ladder out of doors, was eagerly polishing the glass of a bull's-eye window.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle
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