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Definition of Dormer window
1. Noun. The window in a gabled extension built to accommodate a window.
2. Noun. A gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window.
Definition of Dormer window
1. Noun. (alternative form of dormer-window) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dormer Window
Literary usage of Dormer window
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"This Involved the question of whether If the plaintiff had gone through the dormer
window, A, shown on the above sketch, he would have reached the roof on ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The term is used chiefly for accommodations formany sleepers at once, either in
a single unbroken interior, dormer window OF CHAPEL or in small closets or ..."
3. Digest of the Law of Restrictions on the Use of Real Property by Claude Perrin Berry (1915)
"Roof and dormer window, as violative of restriction against building. ...
There was a dormer window in this part of the roof by means of which a room in the ..."
4. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"The other details of the design of the dormer- window, not mentioned in this
brief description, are clearly shown in the drawings. ..."
5. Twenty Years in Parliament by William Torrens McCullagh Torrens (1893)
"was tempted by an open dormer window to descend from aery height, and, mistaking
the position of the household cistern, unintentionally plunged into the ..."
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