bull's-eye window

American  

noun

1. bull's-eye.

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Etymology

Origin of bull's-eye window

First recorded in 1925–30

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Example Sentences

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bull's-eye window

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

A little paper tied to a string hung in front of my bull's-eye window to-day: I took it in.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

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 William Roscoe Thayer

His cab is protected both overhead and at the sides, while his bull's-eye window permits him to look ahead without receiving the wind, dust, and snow in his eyes.

From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

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 Victor [pseud.] Appleton

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