bay windown.
/ˈbeɪˈwɪndəʊ/ ‘A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outwards from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; often called a bow-window.’ Parker Concise Gloss. Archit.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > bay or oriel window
oriela1400
bay window1428
compassed windowa1552
boss window1553
compass-window1621
jut-window1693
bow window1753
oriel window1764
bowre-window1803
oriel casement1883
bow1885
1428 in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 6 In the baye wyndowe of the chambre.
1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes xx, in Wks. sig. Cciiv All Newgate wyndowes bay wyndowes they bee.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. ii. 37 Why it hath bay Windowes transparant as baricadoes. View more context for this quotation
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 233 The old bay-windows he will have preserved.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. vii. 105 Three stories of bow-window (not bay-window, which is another thing).
Derivatives
bay-windowed adj. having bay windows.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [adjective] > bay or oriel window
orielleda1823
bowed1823
embayed1834
bay-windowed1836
bow-windowed1849
embowed1864
1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. vi. 331 In the bay windowed drawing-room.
1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel II. 137 An airy bay-windowed drawing room.
1883 A. Crane in Leis. H. 481/2 The ‘bay-windowed’ city of San Francisco.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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