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rose window
noun
- a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
rose window
noun
- a circular window, esp one that has ornamental tracery radiating from the centre to form a symmetrical roselike pattern Also calledwheel windowrosette
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rose window1
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Example Sentences
The central portal was surrounded by a polygonal rose-window and crowned with a high gable flanked by turrets.
Nôtre Dame's twin towers on each side of that miracle of a rose window would be there next time; but would M. Pol?
The sun comes out and illuminates the coloured rose window above the church door, which is now opened, disclosing the interior.
The rose window suddenly grows dark and the tree above the seat is shaken by the wind.
The rose window above the porch was softly illumined; the light it emitted transfused the thickly falling snow.
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