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Definition of Lancet window
1. Noun. A narrow window having a lancet arch and without tracery.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lancet Window
Literary usage of Lancet window
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Architecture in All Countries, from the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1893)
"Once, however, it was fairly introduced, the English architects •M. lancet window,
Hereford Cathedral. (Cath. Hh.) employed it with great success. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A. Same as lancet window (which see under Window). B. One light shaped like a
lancet window of a large traceried window. In this sense the word is used by ..."
3. A Treatise on the Rise and Progress of Decorated Window Tracery in Englandby Edmund Sharpe by Edmund Sharpe (1849)
"Double lancet window in Aisle 19 ETTON CHURCH.—Double lancet window in Chancel,
... Double Trefoil-headed lancet window, inside 23 WOODSTOCK CHURCH. ..."
4. Handbook to the Environs of London: Alphabetically Arranged, Containing an by James Thorne (1876)
"... of it is a lancet window, blocked up ; but the other windows are mostly Perp.
The E. window is of flowing tracery. A single lancet in the chancel is the ..."
5. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1850)
"... is a single small lancet window. The belfry stage is quite unlike any other
which I have seen in the county; it contains two long lancets with banded ..."
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