windowpanen.
/ˈwɪndə(ʊ)peɪn/, U.S. /ˈwɪndoʊˌpeɪn/ 1. The part of a window formed by a sheet of glass or some other transparent substance held in place by a window frame; = pane n.2 8a.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > pane
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1750 Student 2 No. 3. 105 I commenc'd a toast, and had the honour to have my name tortur'd in acrostics, and inscrib'd on benches, window-panes, and drinking-glasses.
1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire III. 58 The Russians of Kamtshatka make window-panes of these intestines.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxv. 217 Picking up the silver dollar, he sent it smashing through the window-pane, out into the darkness.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Oct. 3/2 The wires are rattled against the window pane.
1921 Open Road Aug. 59/1 A hand print was found on a windowpane.
1976 E. Dunlop Flute in Mayferry Street (1994) xvi. 176 Marion lay watching the raindrops racing one another down the sooty window-panes.
2013 L. Cooper My Second Death xxi. 248 I smile and look at the vague eyeless reflection in the windowpane.
2. Originally U.S. More fully windowpane flounder. A flatfish of the western Atlantic, Scophthalmus aquosus (family Scophthalmidae), with a deep rhomboidal body that is partly translucent. Also called sand flounder.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Scophthalmidae (turbot) > member of
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Scophthalmidae (turbot) > genus or member of Scophthalmus > scophthalmus aquosus (sand dab)
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1873 T. Gill Catal. Fishes East Coast N. Amer. 17 Lophopsetta maculata... Spotted turbot; window-pane (New Jersey); sand flounder (New York).
1902 F. M. Johnson Forest, Lake & River II. Index 368 Window-pane Flounder.
1904 St. Nicholas Sept. 1034 (caption) A typical left-sided flounder of the east coast of the United States. It is called ‘window-pane’ and ‘daylight’ by fishermen because it is exceedingly thin and transparent.
1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways (1991) ix. iii. 350 Flats that are too small to take to market—the ones we call ‘windowpanes’—those fish end up on the pier as lobster bait at six dollars a box.
2005 W. S. Johnson & D. M. Allen Zooplankton Atlantic & Gulf Coasts 292 Windowpane larvae are common to abundant during the warm months.
2011 N.Y. Mag. 18 July 110/2 He was using the six-inch net, so there weren't a lot of wasted fish, just a few see-through windowpane flounder.
3. slang. A monocle. Cf. window n. 10c. rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > eye-glass or monocle
eyeglass1593
glass eye1721
quizzing glass1800
quizzer1806
ogling-glass1843
monocle1873
monoculus1892
window1896
Piccadilly window1897
windowpane1923
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 338 Window-pane,..un monocle.
1966 P. G. Wodehouse Plum Pie ix. 249 Freddie no longer wore the monocle... His father-in-law had happened to ask him one day would he please remove that damned window-pane from his eye.
Compounds
windowpane check n. a large check pattern; a fabric in this pattern; a single square of this.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [noun]
checkingc1440
checkc1450
chequer-work1519
chequer1779
chequerboard1835
checkery1837
quadrille1884
windowpane check1898
Prince of Wales check1935
1898 St. James's Gaz. 5 May 12/2 A most fascinating range of muslins... are to be had in..window-pane checks in solid tones, such as grass-green on white.
1935 N.Y. Times 9 July 6/2 (advt.) Flannels and tweeds—cut the regulation way, full, and with pleats. This window pane check, right, is one.
2013 Daily Tel. 15 May 20/1 There were other coat gems, from windowpane checks and zippered bouclé wools to full-skirted New Look silhouettes.
windowpane-checked adj. having a windowpane check pattern.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [adjective]
checkeryc1440
checkeda1475
chequered1486
counterchanged1648
tessellated1723
diced1725
dam-brod1779
blue-checked1790
quadrilled1835
quadrille1856
chessboard1889
windowpane-checked1917
1917 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 8 Aug. 5/3 Men's cool union suits of window pane checked dimity.
1967 Iola (Kansas) Reg. 28 June 3/2 The bride's mother wore a..windowpane checked linen suit.
2013 M. Specktor Amer. Dream Machine 246 The sight of a heavyset fellow in a tan suit and a windowpane-checked shirt..couldn't have aroused much interest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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