wheel window


noun
  1. a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.

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How to use wheel window in a sentence

  • It is divided into three equal portions each of which is surmounted by a gable containing what was at one time a wheel window.

    Cathedral Cities of Italy | William Wiehe Collins
  • The wheel window of the faade is beautified with exceptionally good tracing.

    Cathedral Cities of Italy | William Wiehe Collins
  • The church of S. Agostino, difficult to find in the slums, has a remarkable faade with a beautiful wheel window.

    Cathedral Cities of Italy | William Wiehe Collins
  • Further north is a Baptist chapel, with two noticeable pointed towers and a central wheel window.

    Holborn and Bloomsbury | Sir Walter Besant
  • Above the central door is usually seen, in the later Lombard churches, a S. Catherine's-wheel window.

British Dictionary definitions for wheel window

wheel window

noun
  1. another name for rose window

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