lucarne

[ loo-kahrn ]

noun

1. a dormer window.

lucarne

/ luːˈkɑːn /

noun

1. a type of dormer window

Word History and Origins

Origin of lucarne¹

1540–50; from French; replacing lucane, from Middle French; origin of both French forms obscure

Word History and Origins

Origin of lucarne¹

C16: from French, from Provençal lucana , of obscure origin

Example Sentences

The conical stone-roofed pyramid is, with the exception of its lucarne windows, most probably of the same date.

From Project Gutenberg

Even the small lucarne window in it looks coeval with the rest.

From Project Gutenberg

To reach the north wing, where her three girls and their governess lived, Madame de Sainfoy had to mount a short flight of steps from the hall, then to go along a vaulted corridor lighted only by a small lucarne window here and there, then down a staircase which brought her to the level of the great salons and the dining-room at the opposite end, which formerly, like this north wing, had hung over the moat, but were now being brought nearer the ground by Monsieur de Sainfoy's earthworks.

From Project Gutenberg

The lucarne windows are of a different design, and form the most characteristic feature of the front: they are pointed and enriched with mullions and tracery, and are placed within triple canopies of nearly the same form, flanked by square pillars, terminating in tall crocketed pinnacles, some of them fronted with open arches crowned with statues.

From Project Gutenberg

From the cave of my ignorance, amid the fogs of my dulness, and pestilential fumes of my political heresies, I look up to thee, as doth a toad through the iron-barred lucarne of a pestiferous dungeon, to the cloudless glory of a summer sun!

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