Definitions

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  • adjective architecture Receiving all or most light from the sky

Etymologies

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sky +‎ lit

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Examples

  • As guests including financier Ron Perelman and actress Renée Zellweger navigated the home's skylit hallways, Mr. Gagosian and his staff mingled with guests, discreetly passing a rolled-up sheet of paper between them like a baton.

    The Gagosian Effect Kelly Crow 2011

  • Thoughtfully installed in a skylit gallery, the plinthless equestrian composition is in some ways even more dramatic.

    Sometimes Two Is Better Than One Tom L. Freudenheim 2011

  • Motion, Avon Street, SatJohn MitchellRalph Lawson's house institution 2020 celebrates a year of London parties with another 12-hour extravaganza at Village Underground, where the unique skylit dancefloor will mark the transition from day to night and back again.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • Mrs. Solner, a homemaker who grew up on a farm in Wisconsin and enjoys gardening, has several skylit indoor gardens she enjoys tending, often filling them with tropical plants and flowers.

    The House a Storm Built Candace Jackson 2012

  • A recent New Yorker interview claimed the work brought to mind Constable's cloud paintings and James Turrell's skylit Quaker meeting house.

    Cory Arcangel: 'I'm trying to get to the idea of design's idea of the future' 2011

  • The property houses a "village" of irregular structures, including one with a three-story skylit space.

    Bluff-Top Home Sells for $27 Million 2011

  • What would you say if I told you that I was about to build a new art museum with gallery walls that could not be hung with art and a skylit exhibition space that would be used to display light-sensitive works?

    Lee Rosenbaum: Form Foils Function: Eli Broad's New Museum in LA Lee Rosenbaum 2011

  • Thoughtfully installed in a skylit gallery, the plinthless equestrian composition is in some ways even more dramatic.

    Sometimes Two Is Better Than One Tom L. Freudenheim 2011

  • What would you say if I told you that I was about to build a new art museum with gallery walls that could not be hung with art and a skylit exhibition space that would be used to display light-sensitive works?

    Lee Rosenbaum: Form Foils Function: Eli Broad's New Museum in LA Lee Rosenbaum 2011

  • Best of all, however, "In a New Light" moves Bellini's painting to the Frick's skylit Oval Room.

    A Shared Moment of Transformation Lance Esplund 2011

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