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
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
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.]
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
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 Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
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