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
A few steps further on, down the Borgo San Pietro, is the large convent of S. Appolinare, remarkable for its pretty campanile of brick, and a wheel window above the door.
From The Story of Assisi by Gordon, Lina Duff
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 James, Henry
Above is a good wheel window, with a cusped circle in the centre, surrounded by eight radiating two-arched lights separated by eight radiating columns.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
With its alternate layers of pink and cream-coloured stone, wheel window and finely modelled door, the church fits well into its sunny piazza, and is a beautiful ending to the eastern side of Assisi.
From The Story of Assisi by Gordon, Lina Duff
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