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Palladian window

American  
[puh-lay-dee-uhn, -lah-] / pəˈleɪ di ən, -ˈlɑ- /

noun

  1. a window in the form of a round-headed archway with a narrower compartment on either side, the side compartments usually being capped with entablatures on which the arch of the central compartment rests.


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The dark green in the decorative friezes, as well as the lintels and pilasters of the Palladian window, is newly accurate, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

The facade features pressed Roman brick and brownstone and is adorned with a Palladian window and cast-iron balconettes.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022

We have a Colonial house with a Palladian window over our front entry door.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2015

A beautiful Palladian window in the second-story wall above each doorway forms a closely related feature, the two being virtually parts of the same effect.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

Owing to its good proportion, the chaste simplicity of the detail and the pleasing combination of brick pilasters with wood trim, this has been referred to by architects as the best Palladian window in America.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

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