Definition of "window-bar" [window-bar]

• One of the parts of the frame of a window or window-sash. (noun)
• A bar of wood or iron for securing a window or the shutters of it when closed. (noun)
• A horizontal bar fitted in a window or doorway, to prevent a child from falling through. (noun)
• Plural Latticework, as on a woman's stomacher. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Coquart, who was putting away the papers of this wretched case, told me that a very handsome woman had taken the Conciergerie by storm, wanting to save Lucien, whom she was quite crazy about, and that she fainted away on seeing him hanging by his necktie to the window-bar of his room."
• "Then I tried the window-bar, and found it firmly fixed."
• "The fact is that as long as the eye is turned to the bright window-pane a more intensive blood-activity occurs in the portions of the eye's background met by the light than in those where the dark window-bar throws its shadow on the retina."