wheel window
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The roof was gone, though a wheel window remained unbroken, high above the absent door.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
This is a pleasing piece of Italian Gothic and, like several of its companions at Assisi, has an elegant wheel window and a number of grotesque little carvings of creatures human and bestial.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
This is in a decorated style, with a large wheel window and elaborately ornamented pinnacles.
From Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
The façade has two plain lancet windows, one shorter than the other, and above them is a large wheel window.
From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Dugald Butler
It is divided into three equal portions each of which is surmounted by a gable containing what was at one time a wheel window.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
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