Casement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Casement is a noun meaning A window sash that is hinged on the side.
Meaning
A window sash that is hinged on the side.
More Meanings
- A window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ
- (military) A casemate. Some writers and readers consider casement a catachresis when used in this sense.
Example Sentences
The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.
Some slight noise had awakened Francesca, and opening her casement, she looked through the thick and misty air, and saw him riding slowly over the heath.
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.
The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
Word Forms
- casements
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sash, window, sidelight, hopper, hatchback, hatch.
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