rose window

American  

noun

1. a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.

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rose window British  

noun

1. Also called: wheel window.   rosette.  a circular window, esp one that has ornamental tracery radiating from the centre to form a symmetrical roselike pattern

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Etymology

Origin of rose window

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

What electrifies this solemn space is the modern rose window, illuminated by the East sun and installed in 2010.

From New York Times

Yves Gallet, an art historian at Bordeaux Montaigne University, oversees a group that aims to study stones that are still in place, such as the encasements that cradle the four-story-diameter rose windows.

From Science Magazine

Tourists can photograph it from nearby embankments, but they can no longer hear its organs or get a close view of its carvings and masterpiece rose windows.

From Fox News

But he said that much progress had been made since the fire on April 15, including the placement of giant netting over the rose windows, which were damaged but not destroyed in the blaze.

From New York Times

But Quasimodo’s story has to be framed within that of the cathedral he calls home, and whose frontal rose window mirrors his single eye.

From The Guardian