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

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bull's-eye window

"I can't get through there," he said, examining the bull's-eye window.

From The Chouans by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

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 Gabrielle Yerta

The great waves as they rushed, boiling and seething, past would peer in at the little bull's-eye window of the state-room, as if eager to swallow up ship and passengers.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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