Definition of "dormer-window" []

• An upright window built from a sloping roof. (noun)

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• "If I were the squat, dormer-window affair to the left, I'd be nervous."
• "He was so thoroughly vexed by the time when the dormer-window of the loft was suddenly flung open, that he did not observe the apparition of three laughing faces, pink and white and chubby, but as vulgar as the face of Commerce as it is seen in sculpture on certain monuments."
• "This covering, warped by the extremes of the Paris climate, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rainfall as to shelter the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer-window."