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Significados de lunette em inglês

Oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault.

Uso de lunette em inglês
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The upcoming lunette, however, was massive-farlarger than the others.
Inferno
2
The defence was also strengthened by the fire of the northwest lunette, and Pigot's Bastion.
With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
3
This work has a lunette which is generally, and I suppose correctly, ascribed to Gaudenzio.
Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varal...
4
Below this lunette stands a bronze copy of an antique David with the marble head of Goliath.
The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition / A Pictor...
5
Sticking out of a crescent-shaped sand ridge of a type known as a lunette were some human bones.
A short history of nearly everything
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From some high lunette windows the cool early sunlight came creeping and playing into the little whitewashed place.
Eleanor
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How much more important, for instance, Mathews' lunette would look, placed somewhere nearer the level of the eye.
The Art of the Exposition / Personal Impressions of the Architec...
8
They lighted on the lunette of shimmering water and purple mountains visible at the farther end of the arbour.
Jerry
9
He is as young as he was the day that he flung out his first tentative lunette after chaos.
Over the Pass
10
Childe Hassam's lunette, said to represent "Fruit and Flowers," is almost anaemic alongside Mathews' fullness of expression.
The Art of the Exposition / Personal Impressions of the Architec...
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The hermit-crabs drew my minute attention, and I anchored my canoe and with the lunette watched them by the hour.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
12
By these means the counter curve to the arch above, the one fixed necessity, apparently, of the lunette, is established.
Artist and Public, and Other Essays on Art Subjects
13
The situation of the chapel prompted us to look over the ground for traces of a lunette bastion on the counterscarp.
Riviera Towns
14
Although the two lights are each sectioned into a lunette and 10 panels, the window presents as one stunningly luminous delight.
The Irish Times
15
It is called the "Madonna del Sacco" (grain sack), and fills the lunette over the door leading from the church.
A Wanderer in Florence
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It is the pierced lunette that is to be dealt with, and Raphael has dealt with it in two entirely different ways.
Artist and Public, and Other Essays on Art Subjects
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