Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Architecture A large window or series of windows projecting from the outer wall of a building and forming a recess within.
- noun Slang A protruding belly; a paunch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, properly, a window forming a recess or bay in a room, projecting outward, and rising from the ground or basement on a plan rectangular, semi-octagonal, or semi-hexagonal, but always straight-sided.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Arch.) A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a
bow window . - informal a protruding abdomen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A
window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming abay in a room. - noun figuratively A
protruding belly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house
- noun slang for a paunch
Etymologies
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From bay + window.
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