rose windown.
/ˌrəʊz ˈwɪndəʊ/, U.S. /ˈroʊz ˌwɪndoʊ/ Church Architecture.
A circular window, esp. one divided into compartments by mullions radiating from a centre, or filled with tracery suggestive of the petals of a rose. Cf. marigold window n. at marigold n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > round windows
roundel1574
oeil-de-boeuf1728
marigold window1736
rose window1738
wheel-window1821
rose1823
rosette1836
rosace1837
bull's-eye1842
Catherine-wheel window1848
ox-eye1875
1738 J. Breval Remarks Several Parts of Europe: Tours since 1723 II. 263 This Church..receives an uncommon Ornament from the double Isles on each Side the Nave; as also from the fine Rose-windows.
1773 J. Noorthouck New Hist. London 610 Those in the second stage are of the kind called rose windows.
1820 D. Turner Tour Normandy I. 178 These large circular windows, sometimes known by the name of rose windows.
1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 373 Some of the aisle windows at Oppenheim are little more than rose windows.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 218 The general idea..may be said to be parallel to that of a circular or rose window.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables ii. 25 Far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window.
1957 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 20 248 The rose-window is a consistent feature of the Gothic churches in the Ile-de-France.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 5 Oct. 85/4 St. Pat's interior features..solid bronze baldachin and spectacular rose window.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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