casementn.

Brit.

/ˈkeɪsm(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈkeɪsmənt/

Forms: Middle English– casement, 1500s casemund, 1500s casment, 1500s–1600s cazement, 1600s cassement, 1600s cazment, 1600s kesment; also Scottish pre-1700 caisment, pre-1700 kaisment.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: case n.², case v.¹, -ment suffix.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably < either case n.² or case v.¹ (although this is first attested later) + -ment suffix, although perhaps compare Old French enchassement frame (see enchasement n.).Compare the following earlier instance of a vernacular word in a Latin linguistic context, apparently denoting a matrix cut into a stone tomb into which an inscribed brass plaque was set (compare sense 1b), although it is unclear whether this is to be interpreted as an earlier instance of the present word or as an (otherwise unattested) parallel formation in Anglo-Norman:1376 Contract for Tomb Nicholas Loveyne in Antiquaries Jrnl. (1980) 60 68 Cum j casement et j bowtell in quo casement erit j bordura de laton' cum scriptura.In sense 4 by association with casemate n.

1. Architecture.

a. A hollow moulding, esp. in a cornice or a pillar; a cavetto (cavetto n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > concave moulding

casementc1425

cove1511

scotia1563

trochilus1563

casemate1611

cavetto1700

throat1722

hollow1726

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 656 (MED) Þe riche kaxenyng, þe lusty tablementis, Vynnettis rennynge in þe casementis.

1452 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 282 (MED) A Batylment by nethe with a Crest above and a Casement fulfyllyng to the werk.

1480 W. Worcester Itineraries (Corpus Cambr. 210) (1969) 314 [Names of mouldings on sketch] A cors wythoute A casement..A bowtelle..A casement wyth levys..a casement wyth trayles of levys.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxi. 784/1 Casements of the same two Pillers of the Prophets.

1617 MS Accts. Masters of Wks. XV. f. 44^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Caisment For caisments to the castell.

1660 tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (new ed.) sig. Aa Scotia, a hollow casement.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 29 A Cavetto, or Casement.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Trochilus It is that hollow Ring which runs round a Pillar... 'Tis commonly call'd the Casement, and often Scotia, from its shady dark Appearance.

1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Elements Civil Archit. 27 At Tivoli, the ends of the channels and the cavity of the trochile or casement are not round but square.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 684 The cavetto..By workmen it is frequently called a casement.

1869 J. H. Parker Conc. Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 3) 237 The old English name for a corresponding moulding very frequently employed in Gothic architecture is Casement.

1988 Old-house Jrnl. Nov. 31/2 Scotia (trochilus or casement): A non-circular concave moulding designed to cast a strong shadow.

b. A matrix cut in stone to receive a monumental brass.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > tablet > brass > matrix for cut in stone

casement1656

1656 ( in W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 354/1 Either of the said long plates for writing shall be in bredth to fill justly the casements provided therefore.

1863 W. Burges in G. G. Scott Gleanings Westm. Abbey (ed. 2) 181 Below the cross..is the casement for a small brass inscription.

1891 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries London 13 213 Beneath the figure is the casement of the inscription.

1903 Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 17 307 The top slab with the casement of the brass taken up and inserted in the north wall.

2008 J. M. Luxford in C. Burgess & M. Heale Late Medieval Eng. College 127 Among them is a fifteenth-century purbeck slab bearing the casement of a priestly brass.

a. A vertically hinged frame containing glass, forming (part of) a window. Hence (more generally): a window.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window

loop1393

shot-windowc1405

gable window1428

batement light1445

church window1458

shot1513

casement1538

dream-hole1559

luket1564

draw window1567

loop-window1574

loophole1591

tower-windowc1593

thorough lights1600

squinch1602

turret window1603

slit1607

close-shuts1615

gutter window1620

street lighta1625

balcony-window1635

clere-story window1679

slip1730

air-loop1758

Venetian1766

Venetian window1775

sidelight1779

lancet window1781

French casement1804

double window1819

couplet1844

spire-light1846

lancet1848

tower-light1848

triplet1849

bar-window1857

pair-light1868

nook window1878

coupled windows1881

three-light1908–9

north-light1919

storm window1933

borrowed light1934

Thermopane1941

storms1952

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Transenna, a loupe to loke out at. also a windowe, or casement.

1542 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1860) 3 163 Ane caisment hevin for leid to be lad thairin to schout the watter by the wyndowis.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xcvii. 5 Ech copweb..she full defaces: No wem seene in casemunds, nor casemund cases.

1595 R. Barnfield Cassandra iii, in Cynthia sig. D3 Through her light cazements cleare, He [sc. Phœbus] stole a kisse.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 51 Why then, may you leaue a casement of the great chamber window..open.

a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) ii. 132 The kesment being taken away, or a pannel of glass broken.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 121 I seldom opened the Casements.

1771 Mem. Mr. Wilson I. 85 As it was a casement, he took out a quarry of glass, by ripping open the lead which inclosed and confined it.

1820 J. Keats Ode to Nightingale in Lamia & Other Poems 111 Magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 229 If a window were beyond the width of a single casement, a small pillar was often interposed.

1933 J. Galsworthy One More River xxxviii. 353 Three wide-opened casements laid bare the night under a..heaven trembling with stars.

1967 M. Glenny tr. M. Bulgakov Master & Margarita i. xiv. 155 Reaching through the transom-like opening at the top in an attempt to unlatch the lower casement.

2004 Tool & Machinery Catal. 2005 (Axminster Power Tool Centre Ltd.) xi. 4/3 Great for cutting in around windows and doors, especially those small Georgian sashes where you normally have at least 16 panes per casement.

b. figurative. Something likened to a window, esp. the eye.

ΚΠ

1561 J. Dolman tr. Cicero 5 Questions i. sig. D.vi It is oure mynde, that seeth and heareth, and not those partes, whiche are but the casementes of the same.

1594 T. Bowes in tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Christian Rdr. sig. a5^v Together with the eye-liddes as casements to open & shut, to receiue in or keepe out the light as need requireth.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse iii. f. 18 The eye is the casement of the soule, through which wee may plainely see it.

1642 R. Carpenter Experience ii. 182 Hee that hath set the casements of his curious eyes, wide open to vanitie.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 228 By these Casements enter in such Objects as may provoke..adulterous Thoughts in the mind.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. liv. 212 The eye, thou knowest, is the casement at which the heart generally looks out.

1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 75 Like the stern-shot light, Fra the liftis [i.e. the air's] blue casement driven.

1865 E. P. Hood Dark Sayings on Harp iii. 67 I sit by the window while night comes on, and desolate thoughts look in through the casements of the soul.

1917 A. MacLeish Lett. (1983) 34 Of restless whispering winds that press along Dark casements of the sense-enshuttered brain.

1992 R. Rodriguez Days of Obligation viii. 160 But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements. Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house.

†c. A window frame. Obsolete. rare.Only recorded in the works of Balthazar Gerbier.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > window-frame

form1463

case1517

window frame1627

gasement1628

window case1660

casement1662

sash1681

chassis1691

Venetian frame1833

1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 18 Windows to be fitted in woodden Casements.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 95 Shutters..framed..to the witdth and height of the stone casement of the window.

a. A casing, a covering.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > encasing or sheathing > that which

hosea1450

enclosure1551

clausure1564

casement1594

hull1718

encasement1741

sheath1774

casing1839

casework1842

cleading1849

sheathing1859

1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings f. 30^v Casting his eye from one to another..found a fault in the casement of the Mallard his hose, which for hast he could not lase vp so close.

1745 J. Swift Ode to Sir W. Temple in Misc. X. 200 Some ('tis said) for their Defence Have worn a Casement o'er their Skin.

1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 Aug. 3/2 Sitting upon the casement of the machinery.

1846 L. M. Child Fact & Fiction 115 They found a ringlet of black hair in a little ivory casement next his heart.

1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. i. 13 The mailed knight..in his casement of iron.

1878 Jrnl. Proc. 21st Ann. Council of Protestant Episcopal Church Minnesota 44 A heresy which teaches men that their bodies are only worthless casements of the soul.

1997 New Yorker 10 Feb. 66/2 The ancient Egyptians..covered them with casements, stones that were smoothed.

†b. Perhaps: a small cupboard. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1668 in J. P. Earwaker Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1884) 165 I give to my Grand-child..one great Cupboard and a little one w^ch wee call a casement.

4. Fortification. = casemate n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > loopholed gallery or bomb-proof vault

casement1751

casemate1839

1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Newcastle, (Northumb.) Stout walls, wherein are 7 gates, and many turrets with divers casements bomb-proof.

1760 C. Powys Diary in Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 76 Here, too, are the guard-room and casements,..buildings of such prodigious strength as to be perfectly safe from the reach of bombs.

1800 London Chron. 2 Sept. 231/1 There are casements sufficient for the largest garrison, where they may be safely lodged in apartments that are bomb-proof.

1867 Sci. Amer. 16 Mar. 173/3 The casement is pierced for twenty guns.

1934 Pop. Mech. Feb. 251 (caption) This Defensive System, One of the Strongest Ever Built, Consists of Fortified Casements Giving Each Other Protection by Cross-Fire.

1962 B. Brodie & F. M. Brodie From Crossbow to H-bomb 151 The old idea of the ‘enceinte’ or enclosure was abandoned for flat, small, strategically placed trenches and casements.

2004 A. Hempstead Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island for Dummies xi. 108 A trail follows the top of the casement, encircling the courtyard and passing cannon emplacements.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

casement pane n.

ΚΠ

1795 T. Cole Life Hubert I. 21 Suspended sure as fly that rambles light O'er casement pane.

1886 E. Fawcett Romance & Revery 15 Broad open soon he flung the casement-panes, And felt the breezes hurrying cool and fleet.

2002 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. b3 Fragments of casement panes, small bottles and vials and drinking glasses were unearthed.

C2.

casement cloth n. a type of lightweight open-weave fabric used esp. for making curtains.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > cotton or linen > for casement curtains

casement cloth1899

casement flux1903

casement fabric1910

1899 Hearth & Home 28 Sept. 797/1 (advt.) Casement cloth.

1908 Home Chat 6 June 572/2 Linen, or casement cloth, employed as concluding note to a skirt of the same.

1932 Manch. Guardian 28 Jan. 15/7 Furnishing and casement cloths have been in rather better demand.

2003 Handwoven Jan. 70/1 A magazine advertisement for a gold casement cloth was the inspiration for this scarf.

casement curtain n. a curtain made to fit a casement window.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > hangings > curtain > window-curtains > types of

festoon curtain1708

valance1726

casement curtain1824

brise-bise1912

1824 C. Ollier Inesilla & Other Tales 201 They immediately repaired there, and withdrew the casement-curtains, that they might see more clearly.

1910 Daily Chron. 5 Apr. 9/4 Our windows are furnished with casement curtains.

1983 New York 25 July 59/1 Bare brick and hanging lanterns..fresh-starched, lace-edged casement curtains..romantic, the way fifties movies promised it would be.

casement fabric n. = casement cloth n.

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casement cloth1899

casement flux1903

casement fabric1910

1910 Times 11 Apr. 9 (advt.) Newest Casement Fabrics for 1910.

1920 Home Chat 4 Dec. 428 Casement Fabrics made to measure.

2010 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 3 Sept. Brighten up your home with this red pouffe made of casement fabric.

casement flux n. rare cotton casement cloth.

ΘΚΠ

casement cloth1899

casement flux1903

casement fabric1910

1903 Popular Fallacy (Heal & Son) (back cover) Casement flux: 36 ins. wide.

casement window n. a window having a vertically hinged frame.

ΚΠ

1620 J. Bonoeil Obseruations Fit Roomes Silk-wormes 5 The chambers wherein you feed them, must haue casement windowes to open and shut on both sides the roome.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 120 We have got the little casement windows clean.

2002 Build It Nov. 95/3 The casement windows are fitted with two or three point espagnolettes.

Derivatives

ˈcasemented adj. furnished with casements (in various senses).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [adjective] > other types of window

three-light1618

casemented1759

mullioned1763

quarried1805

lanceolated1821

supermullioned1838

north-facing1846

lanceted1855

lanciform1855

leaded1855

unmullioned1857

quarrelled1868

through-archa1878

shaftless1881

lanceolate1883

vitrailed1884

double-glazed1910

wind-up1951

screenless1976

thermal pane1978

1759 Universal Mag. Nov. 267/2 An irregular fort on a rock, which is to be built of stone, casemented, and large enough to contain a garrison of 600 men.

1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man I. iii. 51 Its panelled rooms, and casemented windows.

1934 D. Thomas Let. c3 July (1987) 145 As always at this magically, and dirtily, casemented window, I am happy and aloof.

2012 H. Townsend Silk Hay i. 6 Behind this casemented room there was a good-sized bathroom.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	casement
释义	casementn. Brit. /ˈkeɪsm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈkeɪsmənt/ Forms: Middle English– casement, 1500s casemund, 1500s casment, 1500s–1600s cazement, 1600s cassement, 1600s cazment, 1600s kesment; also Scottish pre-1700 caisment, pre-1700 kaisment. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: case n.², case v.¹, -ment suffix. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably < either case n.² or case v.¹ (although this is first attested later) + -ment suffix, although perhaps compare Old French enchassement frame (see enchasement n.).Compare the following earlier instance of a vernacular word in a Latin linguistic context, apparently denoting a matrix cut into a stone tomb into which an inscribed brass plaque was set (compare sense 1b), although it is unclear whether this is to be interpreted as an earlier instance of the present word or as an (otherwise unattested) parallel formation in Anglo-Norman:1376 Contract for Tomb Nicholas Loveyne in Antiquaries Jrnl. (1980) 60 68 Cum j casement et j bowtell in quo casement erit j bordura de laton' cum scriptura.In sense 4 by association with casemate n. 1. Architecture. a. A hollow moulding, esp. in a cornice or a pillar; a cavetto (cavetto n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > concave moulding casementc1425 cove1511 scotia1563 trochilus1563 casemate1611 cavetto1700 throat1722 hollow1726 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 656 (MED) Þe riche kaxenyng, þe lusty tablementis, Vynnettis rennynge in þe casementis. 1452 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 282 (MED) A Batylment by nethe with a Crest above and a Casement fulfyllyng to the werk. 1480 W. Worcester Itineraries (Corpus Cambr. 210) (1969) 314 [Names of mouldings on sketch] A cors wythoute A casement..A bowtelle..A casement wyth levys..a casement wyth trayles of levys. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxi. 784/1 Casements of the same two Pillers of the Prophets. 1617 MS Accts. Masters of Wks. XV. f. 44^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Caisment For caisments to the castell. 1660 tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (new ed.) sig. Aa Scotia, a hollow casement. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 29 A Cavetto, or Casement. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Trochilus It is that hollow Ring which runs round a Pillar... 'Tis commonly call'd the Casement, and often Scotia, from its shady dark Appearance. 1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Elements Civil Archit. 27 At Tivoli, the ends of the channels and the cavity of the trochile or casement are not round but square. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 684 The cavetto..By workmen it is frequently called a casement. 1869 J. H. Parker Conc. Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 3) 237 The old English name for a corresponding moulding very frequently employed in Gothic architecture is Casement. 1988 Old-house Jrnl. Nov. 31/2 Scotia (trochilus or casement): A non-circular concave moulding designed to cast a strong shadow. b. A matrix cut in stone to receive a monumental brass. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > tablet > brass > matrix for cut in stone casement1656 1656 ( in W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 354/1 Either of the said long plates for writing shall be in bredth to fill justly the casements provided therefore. 1863 W. Burges in G. G. Scott Gleanings Westm. Abbey (ed. 2) 181 Below the cross..is the casement for a small brass inscription. 1891 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries London 13 213 Beneath the figure is the casement of the inscription. 1903 Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 17 307 The top slab with the casement of the brass taken up and inserted in the north wall. 2008 J. M. Luxford in C. Burgess & M. Heale Late Medieval Eng. College 127 Among them is a fifteenth-century purbeck slab bearing the casement of a priestly brass. 2. a. A vertically hinged frame containing glass, forming (part of) a window. Hence (more generally): a window. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > other types of window loop1393 shot-windowc1405 gable window1428 batement light1445 church window1458 shot1513 casement1538 dream-hole1559 luket1564 draw window1567 loop-window1574 loophole1591 tower-windowc1593 thorough lights1600 squinch1602 turret window1603 slit1607 close-shuts1615 gutter window1620 street lighta1625 balcony-window1635 clere-story window1679 slip1730 air-loop1758 Venetian1766 Venetian window1775 sidelight1779 lancet window1781 French casement1804 double window1819 couplet1844 spire-light1846 lancet1848 tower-light1848 triplet1849 bar-window1857 pair-light1868 nook window1878 coupled windows1881 three-light1908–9 north-light1919 storm window1933 borrowed light1934 Thermopane1941 storms1952 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Transenna, a loupe to loke out at. also a windowe, or casement. 1542 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1860) 3 163 Ane caisment hevin for leid to be lad thairin to schout the watter by the wyndowis. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xcvii. 5 Ech copweb..she full defaces: No wem seene in casemunds, nor casemund cases. 1595 R. Barnfield Cassandra iii, in Cynthia sig. D3 Through her light cazements cleare, He [sc. Phœbus] stole a kisse. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 51 Why then, may you leaue a casement of the great chamber window..open. View more context for this quotation a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) ii. 132 The kesment being taken away, or a pannel of glass broken. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 121 I seldom opened the Casements. 1771 Mem. Mr. Wilson I. 85 As it was a casement, he took out a quarry of glass, by ripping open the lead which inclosed and confined it. 1820 J. Keats Ode to Nightingale in Lamia & Other Poems 111 Magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 229 If a window were beyond the width of a single casement, a small pillar was often interposed. 1933 J. Galsworthy One More River xxxviii. 353 Three wide-opened casements laid bare the night under a..heaven trembling with stars. 1967 M. Glenny tr. M. Bulgakov Master & Margarita i. xiv. 155 Reaching through the transom-like opening at the top in an attempt to unlatch the lower casement. 2004 Tool & Machinery Catal. 2005 (Axminster Power Tool Centre Ltd.) xi. 4/3 Great for cutting in around windows and doors, especially those small Georgian sashes where you normally have at least 16 panes per casement. b. figurative. Something likened to a window, esp. the eye. ΚΠ 1561 J. Dolman tr. Cicero 5 Questions i. sig. D.vi It is oure mynde, that seeth and heareth, and not those partes, whiche are but the casementes of the same. 1594 T. Bowes in tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Christian Rdr. sig. a5^v Together with the eye-liddes as casements to open & shut, to receiue in or keepe out the light as need requireth. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse iii. f. 18 The eye is the casement of the soule, through which wee may plainely see it. 1642 R. Carpenter Experience ii. 182 Hee that hath set the casements of his curious eyes, wide open to vanitie. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 228 By these Casements enter in such Objects as may provoke..adulterous Thoughts in the mind. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. liv. 212 The eye, thou knowest, is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 75 Like the stern-shot light, Fra the liftis [i.e. the air's] blue casement driven. 1865 E. P. Hood Dark Sayings on Harp iii. 67 I sit by the window while night comes on, and desolate thoughts look in through the casements of the soul. 1917 A. MacLeish Lett. (1983) 34 Of restless whispering winds that press along Dark casements of the sense-enshuttered brain. 1992 R. Rodriguez Days of Obligation viii. 160 But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements. Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house. †c. A window frame. Obsolete. rare.Only recorded in the works of Balthazar Gerbier. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > window-frame form1463 case1517 window frame1627 gasement1628 window case1660 casement1662 sash1681 chassis1691 Venetian frame1833 1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 18 Windows to be fitted in woodden Casements. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 95 Shutters..framed..to the witdth and height of the stone casement of the window. 3. a. A casing, a covering. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > encasing or sheathing > that which hosea1450 enclosure1551 clausure1564 casement1594 hull1718 encasement1741 sheath1774 casing1839 casework1842 cleading1849 sheathing1859 1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings f. 30^v Casting his eye from one to another..found a fault in the casement of the Mallard his hose, which for hast he could not lase vp so close. 1745 J. Swift Ode to Sir W. Temple in Misc. X. 200 Some ('tis said) for their Defence Have worn a Casement o'er their Skin. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 Aug. 3/2 Sitting upon the casement of the machinery. 1846 L. M. Child Fact & Fiction 115 They found a ringlet of black hair in a little ivory casement next his heart. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. i. 13 The mailed knight..in his casement of iron. 1878 Jrnl. Proc. 21st Ann. Council of Protestant Episcopal Church Minnesota 44 A heresy which teaches men that their bodies are only worthless casements of the soul. 1997 New Yorker 10 Feb. 66/2 The ancient Egyptians..covered them with casements, stones that were smoothed. †b. Perhaps: a small cupboard. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1668 in J. P. Earwaker Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1884) 165 I give to my Grand-child..one great Cupboard and a little one w^ch wee call a casement. 4. Fortification. = casemate n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > loopholed gallery or bomb-proof vault casement1751 casemate1839 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Newcastle, (Northumb.) Stout walls, wherein are 7 gates, and many turrets with divers casements bomb-proof. 1760 C. Powys Diary in Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 76 Here, too, are the guard-room and casements,..buildings of such prodigious strength as to be perfectly safe from the reach of bombs. 1800 London Chron. 2 Sept. 231/1 There are casements sufficient for the largest garrison, where they may be safely lodged in apartments that are bomb-proof. 1867 Sci. Amer. 16 Mar. 173/3 The casement is pierced for twenty guns. 1934 Pop. Mech. Feb. 251 (caption) This Defensive System, One of the Strongest Ever Built, Consists of Fortified Casements Giving Each Other Protection by Cross-Fire. 1962 B. Brodie & F. M. Brodie From Crossbow to H-bomb 151 The old idea of the ‘enceinte’ or enclosure was abandoned for flat, small, strategically placed trenches and casements. 2004 A. Hempstead Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island for Dummies xi. 108 A trail follows the top of the casement, encircling the courtyard and passing cannon emplacements. Compounds C1. General attributive. casement pane n. ΚΠ 1795 T. Cole Life Hubert I. 21 Suspended sure as fly that rambles light O'er casement pane. 1886 E. Fawcett Romance & Revery 15 Broad open soon he flung the casement-panes, And felt the breezes hurrying cool and fleet. 2002 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. b3 Fragments of casement panes, small bottles and vials and drinking glasses were unearthed. C2. casement cloth n. a type of lightweight open-weave fabric used esp. for making curtains. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > cotton or linen > for casement curtains casement cloth1899 casement flux1903 casement fabric1910 1899 Hearth & Home 28 Sept. 797/1 (advt.) Casement cloth. 1908 Home Chat 6 June 572/2 Linen, or casement cloth, employed as concluding note to a skirt of the same. 1932 Manch. Guardian 28 Jan. 15/7 Furnishing and casement cloths have been in rather better demand. 2003 Handwoven Jan. 70/1 A magazine advertisement for a gold casement cloth was the inspiration for this scarf. casement curtain n. a curtain made to fit a casement window. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > hangings > curtain > window-curtains > types of festoon curtain1708 valance1726 casement curtain1824 brise-bise1912 1824 C. Ollier Inesilla & Other Tales 201 They immediately repaired there, and withdrew the casement-curtains, that they might see more clearly. 1910 Daily Chron. 5 Apr. 9/4 Our windows are furnished with casement curtains. 1983 New York 25 July 59/1 Bare brick and hanging lanterns..fresh-starched, lace-edged casement curtains..romantic, the way fifties movies promised it would be. casement fabric n. = casement cloth n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > cotton or linen > for casement curtains casement cloth1899 casement flux1903 casement fabric1910 1910 Times 11 Apr. 9 (advt.) Newest Casement Fabrics for 1910. 1920 Home Chat 4 Dec. 428 Casement Fabrics made to measure. 2010 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 3 Sept. Brighten up your home with this red pouffe made of casement fabric. casement flux n. rare cotton casement cloth. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > cotton or linen > for casement curtains casement cloth1899 casement flux1903 casement fabric1910 1903 Popular Fallacy (Heal & Son) (back cover) Casement flux: 36 ins. wide. casement window n. a window having a vertically hinged frame. ΚΠ 1620 J. Bonoeil Obseruations Fit Roomes Silk-wormes 5 The chambers wherein you feed them, must haue casement windowes to open and shut on both sides the roome. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 120 We have got the little casement windows clean. 2002 Build It Nov. 95/3 The casement windows are fitted with two or three point espagnolettes. Derivatives ˈcasemented adj. furnished with casements (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [adjective] > other types of window three-light1618 casemented1759 mullioned1763 quarried1805 lanceolated1821 supermullioned1838 north-facing1846 lanceted1855 lanciform1855 leaded1855 unmullioned1857 quarrelled1868 through-archa1878 shaftless1881 lanceolate1883 vitrailed1884 double-glazed1910 wind-up1951 screenless1976 thermal pane1978 1759 Universal Mag. Nov. 267/2 An irregular fort on a rock, which is to be built of stone, casemented, and large enough to contain a garrison of 600 men. 1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man I. iii. 51 Its panelled rooms, and casemented windows. 1934 D. Thomas Let. c3 July (1987) 145 As always at this magically, and dirtily, casemented window, I am happy and aloof. 2012 H. Townsend Silk Hay i. 6 Behind this casemented room there was a good-sized bathroom. 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