Lunette

Quick meaning: Lunette is a noun meaning (architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.

Meaning

(architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.

More Meanings

1. (architecture) A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.
2. (fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
3. A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
4. The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
5. (geology) A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
6. (Christianity) A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
7. (obsolete) An image or other representation of a crescent moon.

Example Sentences

This Lunette, as we have seen, was confronted, and even in siege-form "approached", by a part of Canrobert's army [...].

Lunette and double lunette glasses are generally sized in quarters; crystals and thin flat lunettes for hunters in eighths.

Next came the semi-landing with the lunette window, and here the door opened under the pressure of a single finger, and with a sigh and creak.

Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.

Word Forms

• lunettes

Synonyms for lunette

Depending on context, synonyms include fenestella.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fenestella, lunule, lunel, lancet, lune, lantern.

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