sash window

British  

noun

1. a window consisting of two sashes placed one above the other so that one or each can be slid over the other to open the window

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Example Sentences

All they found was a narrow section of a left palm print, the area beneath the little finger, on the frame of an upstairs sash window.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

For the longest time, home air conditioning usually meant a noisy box mounted in a sash window.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2021

Throwing up the sash window, he leaned outside just in time to see Billy whipping around the corner of the street out of sight.

From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2018

The genius of the building is the exterior skin that contrasts a massive bulk of gothic terra-cotta, brick and concrete with thousands of delicate shoji-like industrial steel sash window panes — that swing open!

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2017

I know that on warm summer evenings, the occupants of this house, Jason and Jess, sometimes climb out of the large sash window to sit on the makeshift terrace on top of the kitchen-extension roof.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins