sash window

British

noun

a window consisting of two sashes placed one above the other so that one or each can be slid over the other to open the window

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All they found was a narrow section of a left palm print, the area beneath the little finger, on the frame of an upstairs sash window.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

For the longest time, home air conditioning usually meant a noisy box mounted in a sash window.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2021

Throwing up the sash window, he leaned outside just in time to see Billy whipping around the corner of the street out of sight.

From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2018

The genius of the building is the exterior skin that contrasts a massive bulk of gothic terra-cotta, brick and concrete with thousands of delicate shoji-like industrial steel sash window panes — that swing open!

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2017

Under the single sash window was a sink with one tap and a one-ring gas cooker.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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