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

Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Suddenly, in the middle of that conversation or double monologue, I had a premonition and I started moving stealthily toward one of the windows in the living room, a ridiculous little bull’s-eye window, in a corner, too close to the main window to serve any useful purpose.

From The New Yorker

The199 main building is two stories high with a decked gable roof, heavily balustraded between large, arched quadruple chimney stacks at each end, corners heavily quoined with marble and ends without fenestration other than a round bull's-eye window in each.

From Project Gutenberg