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dormer|ˈdɔːmə(r)|
Also 6–8 -ar.
[ad. OF. dormeor, -ior, -or (= F. dortoir):— L. dormītōrium sleeping-room, dormitory, f. dormīre to sleep.]
1. A sleeping chamber, dormitory. Obs. exc. Hist.
1605Chapman All Fooles iv. i. (R.), Or to any shop..chamber, dormer, and so forth. 1666Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 98 Watson had done the great window of my dormer..then till 11 bording my dormer. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. x. 460 The foreign discipline of the common refectory and the common dormer.
†b. transf. A resting place; a repository.
c1640[Shirley] Capt. Underwit ii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 342 The gold..he put in his hocas pocas, a little dormer under his right skirt.
2. A projecting vertical window in the sloping roof of a house. Also dormer-window.[Orig. the window of a dormitory or bed-room.] 1592Greene Def. Conny-catch. (1859) 19 If there were a dormar built to it..it would make the properest parlour in al the house. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 129 Dorman, Dormer, In Architecture is a Window made in the Roof of a House, it standing upon the Rafters. 1847Longfellow Ev. i. i. 16 Thatched were the roofs, with dormer-windows. 1871M. E. Braddon Lovels ii. 33 There were..queer little dormers in the roof.
†3. A beam; = dormant n. 1. Obs.
1623T. Goad Dolef. Euen-Song 11 The floare..falling, by the breaking asunder of a maine Sommier or Dormer. 1758J. Clubbe Wheatfield 71 In a parlour belonging to a farm-house..there was a remarkably large dormer of chesnut. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dormer, a large beam.
4. attrib. and Comb., as dormer-roof; dormer-shaped, dormer windowed adjs. Also, dormer-gablet, a small gable over a dormer-window; dormer-tile, one used to form a junction between the tiling on the sides of a dormer-window and that on the roof.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 272 Dormar- or Dorman-[tile]..These Tyles consist of a plain Tyle, and a Triangular piece of a plain Tile standing up at right Angles to one side of the plain Tyle. 1765Phil. Trans. LV. 274 There is a lath and plaister wall..supporting a kind of dormer roof. 1811Self Instructor 141 Dormer tiles. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities i. v, The window was dormer-shaped. 1884Harper's Mag. Mar. 529/2 The roofs are..dormer-windowed. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge II. 737 The dormer-gablets..were connected by a parapet.
Hence ˈdormered a., having dormers.
18..New Princeton Rev. III. 112 (Cent.) A high, solid, dormered roof.
Add:[4.] dormer bungalow, a bungalow having one or more dormer rooms.
1977Irish Times 8 June 13/5 (Advt.), An excellent *dormer bungalow with one of the largest gardens in this desirable development. 1986West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 8 May (Property Weekly) 3 (Advt.), Extremely well maintained semi-detached dormer bungalow.
dormer room, a room in the roof-space of a house, etc. lit by a dormer window.
1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris iii. 51 The maid..had a *dormer room in the attic. 1987N.Y. Times 2 Apr. c4/6 In attic or dormer rooms with sloping ceilings, build in..work tables in the areas with low walls, where you cannot stand. |