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单词 pede-window
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pede-windown.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin ped- , pēs , window n.
Etymology: < classical Latin ped-, pēs foot, base (see -ped comb. form) + window n. Compare earlier pede-cloth n. N.E.D. (1904 s.v. pede) gives the pronunciation of the first element as (pīd) /piːd/.
Church Architecture. Obsolete. rare.
A window at the west end of a cruciform church, supposed to symbolize one of Jesus's feet.
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oculus1848
1846 Ecclesiologist 5 187 It struck us that lychnoscopes help to explain, and were themselves explained by, pede-windows.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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