rose window
Example Sentences
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Rowan LeCompte, a Baltimore-born artisan, created more than three dozen windows for the cathedral, including the west rose window, which depicts the creation of Earth as an explosive abstraction of color and light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
The fugitives entered and left the attic through a rose window, usually under the cover of darkness.
From Reuters ● May 4, 2022
The glass interrupted the tower’s pulled-taffy proportions, and spoiled what was even more distinctive than the broken pediment: the supersized Italianate portico, facing Madison Avenue, with its semicircular arches and big, quasi-ecclesiastical rose window.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018
In Amatrice, known as the town of “100 churches,” at least 15 were destroyed — including Sant’Agostino, a 15th-century structure decorated with elaborate frescoes and a rose window on its facade.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2016
Her great rose window looked down like a dark and malevolent eye.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
