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Meanings of lancet window in English

A narrow window having a lancet arch and without tracery.

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Examples for "lancet"
Examples for "lancet"
1
He examined the point of his lancet and bared the slender arm.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
2
The lancet was the magician's wand of the dark ages of medicine.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
3
The lancet windows of his workshop looked on all this quiet greenery.
Bimbi: Stories for Children
4
No danger, but perhaps it may be a case for the lancet.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 02
5
Now comes the old-school doctor, and thrusts in his lancet too soon.
Bits about Home Matters
Usage of lancet window in English
1
The chancel with its fine triple lancet window is Early English.
Wanderings in Wessex / An Exploration of the Southern Realm from...
2
She saw him raise his eyes to the lancet window and saw him smile.
The Flanders Panel
3
Then she went to a narrow lancet window set in the stone wall, opened it and retrieved a thermometer.
The coldest blood
4
Instead of sitting down, the young noble leaned against a lancet window which commanded a view of the neighboring castle.
The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
5
Nothing of the sacred edifice remained, however, but the Gothic front, with its deep portal and grand lancet window, already described.
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
6
Beatrice of Ostenburg was seated near the lancet window, her eyes lowered, absorbed in the book that lay in her lap.
The Flanders Panel
7
She could not see his features clearly, since the sun, pouring in through a tall lancet window behind him, dazzled her eyes.
A Book of Quaker Saints
8
It was a low vaulted chamber, eight feet high, ten broad, and twenty-four long, dimly lighted by a lancet window six feet from the ground.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
9
The lancet windows of his workshop looked on all this quiet greenery.
Bimbi: Stories for Children
10
Frames of the lancet windows of the drum have been installed.
Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950–1957
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The columns between the lancet windows are rising higher with each passing day.
The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1)
12
The light was coming from lancet windows in the walls high above me.
The Asylum
13
Above them are three lancet windows which resemble windows of the Early English Style.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 / France and the Net...
14
They extend across an archway over the stream, and are lit by lancet windows.
What to See in England / A Guide to Places of Historic Interest,...
15
The eastern wall is of three bays, each bay having three lofty lancet windows.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham / A Descriptio...
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The lancet windows of the chancel date this portion of the church as about 1270.
Wanderings in Wessex / An Exploration of the Southern Realm from...